British culture viewed through the Potterverse

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No: HPFGUIDX 58439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "catherinemckiernan" 
<catherinemck at h...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
> > Ali:
> > > > somewhere -- if so, please accept my apologies!  But if 
British
> students don't 
> > "graduate," what happens at the end of their schooling?  Do they
> just stop 
> > going to school with no "ceremonial ending" to their years of
> education (those 
> > who aren't going on to college, anyway)?  

There is a very interesting and comprehensive essay about this on 
the Harry Potter Lexicon:
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizardworld/essays/essay-british-
schooling.html

It's a good indoctrination into not only British schooling, but more 
specifically into the way British schools operating in the 1970s, 
when Rowling attended them. 

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon