THEORY: Hogwarts curriculum

[frugalarugala]

No: HPFGUIDX 112659

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

Frugalarugala:
Yeah, it was me. Though, I don't think we are actually at opposites. 
I wasn't meaning to sound like I think any large number go on to 
muggle universities. I think the number is fairly small, with the 
majority learning through apprenticeships. I mean, name a profession 
we've seen in the WW that could use what could be learned from a 
muggle school. Medicine--they use magical means. Law--maybe, where 
there is overlap. Engineering--bwah! But things like writing, 
history, art... 

Nora:
> The culture shock for the pureblooded would be fairly 
> profound, 

Frugalarugala:
OOOOH, yeah. But that would just shove them back into their ivory 
towers with tutors and make them feel all the more threatened by the 
muggle world. All that arrogance and prejudice has to come from 
somewhere. It's usually from one group feeling the need to make 
themselves feel better by telling themselves their better than the 
next group, and from feeling threatened by that group. 

So why would pureblooded wizards feel inferior to or threatened by 
muggles? Culture shock. Feeling stupid for not being able to cope. 
So they retreat into a world of their own, and feel vaguely trapped 
and threatened, which they are, if they can't deal with the muggle 
world they're cut off from the vast majority of people. It's the 
only way I've come up with to explain the attitudes we see in the 
books. 

Nora:
>and the rest of the kids had been cut off from the stream 
> of Muggle education for so long.  

Frugalarugala:
Well, there is muggle studies and career counciling... But I don't 
think they'd care much about the muggle degrees. I think they'd have 
rather the same attitude some people have to people with foreign 
medical degrees. How hard would it be to put a spell on muggles to 
not notice the extra person sitting in their class'? With the degree 
of cultural arrogance they have, the degrees I can see them caring 
about would be stamped MoM. 

Nora: 
>'Harry Potter Goes to College and Learns How To Do a Kegstand'  

Frugalarugala: 
Hey, I'd buy a copy!