Boarding school (WAS: Re: No Sex, Please, We're British (was ethics in the WW )

[Diana_Sirius_fan]

No: HPFGUIDX 83325

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "adsong16" <gorda_ad at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> JKR has said that she never went to boarding school, and I must 
say it shows.
> I particularly note the long stretches of unsupervised time that 
kids have 
> (evenings after dinner, say 6 pm or so, and all of Saturday and 
Sunday, not to 
> mention holidays). In American boarding schools there is rarely 
unsupervised 
> time for the kids, with the thought that "idle hands are the 
devil's playground." 
> Usually after dinner there is a study hall, during which the staff 
makes sure the 
> kids are doing their homework, and no more than an hour or so 
until lights-out 
> (kids must be in bed and quiet). > Gorda

I think that just because there aren't "physical" people in the HP 
common room during their free time doesn't mean they are not 
supervised.  Remember, the pictures can move and talk.  When Prof. 
McGonagall is needed she is there in a minute.  Dumbledore seems to 
know every move that is going on. (Maybe from his chocolate frogs).  
I think that in the HP universe the students are watched a little 
more closely than even they know.       Diana