Wizarding Universities (Was Re: Reading Hieroglyphics)

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 114004

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

> 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?

http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2000/0200-scholastic-
chat.htm

"Do you think that you will write about Harry after he graduates from 
Hogwarts? Isn't there a University of Wizardry? 

A. No, there's no University for Wizards."

<snip>

> 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.

Then why isn't Hermione all aglow at the idea of going on to study 
further in university?  She's not--she's all thinking about what 
she's going to do after finishing school, and what career she's going 
into.

The lack of wizarding university strikes me as interesting, in line 
with the postulated and discussed intellectual lacks of the WW.

-Nora sits in her comfy library and ponders further