[HPforGrownups] Wizarding Universities (Was Re: Reading Hieroglyphics)

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 114069

Neri wrote:
>The reason for the lack of universities might be simply
>quantitative: there's just enough wizards in Britain for one big
>school. Given that not everybody continues to the university and
>that the number of fields and courses in the university needs to be
>larger (diversity of knowledge increases with its level) there would
>be only one or two students per class. More logical to use the
>master/assistant system.

We don't of course have a definitive answer on whether Hogwarts educates
every wizarding child in the British Isles: one of the problems with it
doing so is that the society that JKR describes is just too complex to be
possible with that small a number. But assuming that it's so, then the
quantitative argument would just move up one level and be "why isn't there a
wizarding university at a European level?"

Medieval European universities drew their students from many countries.
Because the language of teaching was Latin, it didn't really matter where
you came from. And of course we know that Wizard Latin is the language of
many spells and charms...

But JKR alone knows all

Cheers

Ffred

O Benryn wleth hyd Luch Reon
Cymru yn unfryd gerhyd Wrion
Gwret dy Cymry yghymeiri