a thought about career's advice

[Ladycat16 at aol.com]

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Lee wrote:
>> If we look at Hogwarts and compare it to a regular school system, at 
least the one in the US that I'm familiar with, career counseling didn't 
come until one's junior year of high school.  So, even though we had 
electives we could take when starting HS or in the middle of HS, the 
career thing and college thing didn't start to rear its ugly head until 
junior year.  So, not seeing career advice until Harry's fifth year 
doesn't seem at all unusual. <<


Ladycat16 says: (me)

I agree with you in the fact that if we compared it to American HighSchool we wouldn't get the career planning untill then.

I look at Hogwarts as more of a Prep School or in America for a better term a vocational school. It seems like in the WW, if there are colleges they are based more so on certain types of schools, (i.e. School of Business, School of Law). If looking at the career pamplets I see that they have to have taken a certain type of class and certain level, (i.e. CoMC, for 3 years) in order to go into that type of field. IMHO, I view Hogwarts as more of a college idea, in that sence. I would have thought they should have had some help in the area when the childern are aloud to pick their own electives. 

I mean they might have but it wasn't prominant help, or at least not of what I saw, other then relatives. I think it would have been a nice idea to have a small pamphlet given to each student of that year with a list of common jobs and the type of classes needed. That way muggle borns would have an idea of what types of jobs there were. If I recall correctly, Harry didn't know of the different types of job in CoS or in OoTP. Maybe I am wrong. 

Tiffany