Wizarding Universities (Was Re: Reading Hieroglyphics)

[Haggridd]

No: HPFGUIDX 114002

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Nora Renka" <nrenka at y...> 
wrote:
 And we know there are no wizarding universities.  Was this a 
> tradition largely lost when the split from the Muggle world was 
made 
> for good?  Only JKR knows, and I do wonder how deeply she's thought 
> all of that out. :)
> 
> -Nora never got up the time or effort to take Egyptian, alas

Pardon me, but do we really know that there are no Wizarding 
Universities?  I am not speaking of other fandoms, such as Unseen 
University in Terry Pratchett's Discworld, but in JKR's Wizarding 
World?

In England in the last century (excuse me, in the nineteenth century) 
young men went straight on to positions of responsibility in 
government, in commerce, in the militry, without attending univerity, 
which was a far more rearefied academic realm than is our current 
crop of glorified trade schools. (I am not arguing with the wisdom of 
this evoluton, only that it has indeed taken place.)  It is in this 
earlier tradition that most young wizards and witches can face the 
world after attending what is the equivalent of a nineteenth-century 
English "public" school, a la Tom Brown's School Days (There is even 
a Draco-like student there named Harry Flashman).

But universities existed then, and I contend they exist in the WW, 
only they are not necessary for the average wizard in his career.
All those investigations and lore-reading you posit could well be 
done at such a Wizarding Univrsity.

Haggridd
Bugarup University
Class of '74