Jobs

[starlandcolleen]

No: HPFGUIDX 108930

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> Mandy wrote:
> >I just read some theories about how there seems to be an
> >extraordinarily disproportionate number of witches and wizards
> >working for the MoM (are you all impressed that I've got the hang of
> >abbreviations already?!) and I have another viewpoint on this
> >subject.

> First of all, I think it's because there _are_ a lot of wizards working for
> the Ministry. 

<snip>

> The school is turning out a large number of educated young wizards
> with a common mindset to be the bureaucracy of the future (in a not
> dissimilar way to the way that the English public schools turned out the
> administrators of the British Empire!)




starlandcolleen:

I think it is pretty widely accepted that many wizards and witches 
perform jobs outside of the careers which Hogwart's seems to prepare 
it's students for. What I am wondering is; where do they train, if 
they do? I wonder if there are "vocational" schools for 
wizards...perhaps Hogwarts is the equivalent of an academic academy. 
(Boy, there's a redundant phrase!)I am thinking back to Molly's 
cookbooks i.e. "Charm your Own Cheese" Perhaps students at the 
vocational schools would use something like that for their texts. I 
can't see them going to muggle school until they are working. 

A somewhat related question; on another thread, somebody pointed out 
that J.K.R. confirmed in an interview that wizard kids do not have to 
go to muggle school before Hogwarts. Are their basic skills, i.e. 
reading, home-taught? Perhaps there are tutors for this? Any thoughts?