Wizarding Universities (Was Re: Reading Hieroglyphics)

[Nora Renka]

No: HPFGUIDX 114009

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steven Spencer" 
<terpnurse at q...> wrote:

> Now Terpnurse:
> Don't aurors have to take specialized courses for several years 
> beyond normal schooling in order to become aurors? Surely there are 
> other wizarding professions that require additional training. Did 
> Bill learn everything he needed at HW to become a curse-breaker? Or 
> Charlie to study dragons? What about the Unspeakables who work in 
> the DoM?
> 
> Perhaps there's not a wizarding university, per se, but wizarding 
> advanced trade schools?

That's a possibility...this is how I understand Aurors.  There's a 
requirement in OWLS to become an Auror (and presumably a NEWT 
requirement as well)--and this is all only for admission.  Once 
accepted into the program, then you get trained there by the senior 
staff, all with an eye to developing the practical skills you need on 
the job.  This is, however, rather different than the structure of 
something like a full-blown university.

There's certainly some degree of scholarship and R&D going on in the 
WW.  It doesn't seem to be institutionalized, with the resulting 
bonuses (and minuses) that come from that, however.  But this is all 
speculative, unless she wants to tell us more.

-Nora escapes from the freezing cold into the sun again