The Wizarding World: Expulsion & Hogwarts School

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No: HPFGUIDX 127636


> bboyminn:
> As far as magic, in Hagrid's case, his magical education was 
> stopped before he had his qualifications, and his wand was broken. > So, I'm not so sure that Hagrid is banned from doing magic, he is 
> banned from having and using a wand which in effect is the same 
> as a ban on most magic.
> 
> Also, I think expulsion is very rare. The teachers and headmaster 
> hold the threat of expulsion over the students heads as a way of
> controlling them and maintaining order in the school, but it would
> really take something dreadfully extreme to get a student 
> expelled. <snip>


Well, I am also considering the fact that for the few minutes Harry was expelled, they wrote that someone would be coming to destroy 
his wand. The way they worded it implied that it was the normal procedure in an expulsion, otherwise they would have waited till 
the initially mentioned trial.

Another thing to consider, possibly, is the presence of the 
Kwikspell program. If it is true that the reason for the ban on 
magic is due to the ministry not wanting uneducated wizards causing mayhem, what if someone comes to magic late in life, as I believe 
JK has mentioned, or squibs attempting magic. It seems an injustice to me.

Another thought I had was, could the expelled wizard go to another school? I'm not sure of the common practices throughout the rest of the world, but in the US, an expelled student can simply go to another school. Also, in OOTP, Seamus mentioned that his mother didn't want him to return to Hogwarts. I wonder what his mother had in mind, Homeschooling? Another School? Just plain dropping out? 

If expulsion does, indeed, come with a lifetime ban on performing magic, I believe that many of the authority figures are way too 
hasty to mention expulsion as a punishment. 

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