[HPforGrownups] Is education a right or a privilege in WW?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 103007

Shaun (muchly snipped) wrote:
>Now, it's my view that we are seeing a Wizarding World where
>there are significant variations in magical ability, and
>these impact whether or not a person is accepted for entry
>to Hogwarts.

A great deal of agreement on my part for this idea and the related concepts.
There's a lot of canon to support this, from people being talked about as
especially powerful, the Kwikspell Course, evidence of magic being done at a
very young age, and so on.

>(1) Neville's statement in Philosopher's Stone that his
>family were worried, even after he'd demonstrated some
>natural magical ability, that he was not magical enough to
>get into Hogwarts.
>
>(2) Less clear, but the fact that Hogwarts is apparently the
>only Wizarding school in Britain, and even if it has a
>thousand students, doesn't really seem large enough to
>support the education of all of Britain's Wizard children
>given the apparent size of the Wizard population as seen in
>the novels.

OK on these points also.

>For the purposes of discussion, we need to set an 'entry
>score' for Hogwarts. Just for the purposes of this
>discussion, I've decided to assume that the MQ required to
>enter Hogwarts is a score of 111.

>[Note - it must be stated here that MQ must be only part of
>the standard for success at Hogwarts. Conventional IQ -
>intelligence - obviously plays a part in a students success
>as well. But I think MQ is the determining factor for entry
>- otherwise its hard to explain Goyle].

I did wonder about where Goyle would fall under this theory!

>Just throwing some ideas around here in case anyone wants to
>disect all this.

Just one question comes to mind from me and that is: how would you see the
standard being assessed? Would you see it as just being a function of the
Quill, that it would automatically register someone's likely MQ/MP at age 11
when they were born, or something that someone's family would try to assess
(eg by dropping Neville out of the window!) or by some other means? I
couldn't see the WW having the resources to be able to administer tests to
all the children...

Cheers

Ffred

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