Home-Schooling in the Wizard World (long)

[deborahhbbrd]

No: HPFGUIDX 127451


Greenfirespike <feenyjam at m...> wrote:
> After following several wonderful threads from the past week, a 
> question began to reemerge regarding education within the WW.  
> Are any wizards home-schooled? 
<SNIP LIKE MAD>
> In summation
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> I just wanted to put out a few of the major options that exist 
> to explain alternatives to a Hogwarts education.  I believe that 
> most magical children attend Hogwarts, and the home-schooled 
> magical child is rare indeed.  


Excellent discussion - thank you!

What's always puzzled me is the absence (canon - JKR in an interview)
of a wizarding university - and, we must therefore assume, a technical
training college, centre for sporting excellence, evening courses to
upgrade one's rusty memories of Charms and Potions forty years on, etc.

What do adult wizards and witches do to qualify for employment? How do
they enjoy themselves in their spare time? Do they read for pleasure?
If all they get are the newspapers we know about, they must be very
slow readers ... and the wireless doesn't seem too appealing either.

I really do feel sorry for them! And this is Britain, remember - land
of the evening course, the Women's Institute, the harvest festival
vegetable competition, the choir practice and the charity fundraising
tea. Their lives are surely not empty ... but I'd love to know how
they are filled.

Deborah