THEORY: Hogwarts curriculum

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 112640

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cunning_spirit" 
<cunning_spirit at y...> wrote:

(?) wrote:

> > I can picture them going into apprenticeships to study magic-
> > related fields in depth, but going on to a muggle university 
> > to study something were the wizarding world and muggle world 
> > overlap. Afterall, why create a seporate system of their own, 
> > when the majority (the muggles) already have one in place? I 
> > see Hogwarts as the school for what they can't get from the 
> > muggle schools.

Correction: I didn't write this.  In fact, this is directly contra 
what I suspect. :)

> I've often wondered about this. However how would students trained 
> in WW schools provide school transfer records that muggle colleges 
> and universities would accept? Unless some of the older 
> institutions (I could see this as true with Oxford and Cambridge) 
> actually have secret offices specifically for handling the cases of 
> students entering from Hogwarts.

Even with the adorable level of oddness and eccentricity amongst the 
college population, kids at Hogwarts would be hard-pressed to really 
fit in.  The culture shock for the pureblooded would be fairly 
profound, and the rest of the kids had been cut off from the stream 
of Muggle education for so long.  Let's take the British model and 
not the American here--how would the Hogwarts kids pass their A 
levels and O levels?  What kind of cover stories would they have for 
endlessly inquisitive dormmates and such.  You get one wizarding 
undergraduate hammered (which is SO going to happen), he or she lets 
something slip...  And for graduate education, you must come in with 
some proof of accomplishment in the field.  No, it seems to me that 
the Muggle universities are something that the WW doesn't have any 
serious contact with--and I think that's deliberate in JKR's picture 
of her world, not only the best way to get out of writing 'Harry 
Potter Goes to College and Learns How To Do a Kegstand' (joking 
there, I am).

-Nora wishes the library were open late