Untapped Magical Potential (was: Is education a right ...)

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 103071

Shaun Hately wrote:
> The same may well apply in the Wizarding World - just because a 
> Wizard doesn't get into Hogwarts doesn't mean their education 
> necessarily ends.

Del adds :
just like it doesn't *start* with Hogwarts. We know that the kids
learn to read, write, count and so forth *before* they get to
Hogwarts. They have to, they are expected to. But I don't believe that
all kids are taught only by their parents. Maybe Molly Weasley taught
her kids, but I'm pretty sure someone like Narcissa Malfoy didn't.
Maybe she hired a private teacher ? And I'll bet that there are
wizarding families where both parents work outside the home, or even
simply single-parent families where the parent *has* to work outside
the home. So someone has to take care of all those kids. There must be
some kind of school, not necessarily compulsory, but at least
available for those kids who need it.

So if there's something before Hogwarts that we haven't heard of, I
don't see why there couldn't be something outside Hogwarts as well.
Just because Harry doesn't know about it doesn't mean it doesn't
exist. After all, Harry is the one who didn't think of foreign wizards
and foreign schools until he actually met them :-) So maybe someday
he'll be taken aback when Seamus mentions his little brother who
wasn't magical enough to be taken at Hogwarts and who is now training
to be a window-cleaner at the MoM ;-)

Del

Del