[HPforGrownups] Re: What's the point of Hogwarts? Should be a summer camp.

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 127723

sandra87b  wrote:
 
So I stand by my point - going to Hogwarts is a big step 
backwards for the kids, because JKR never thought out the 
credibility of the place. it should have been a summer camp, and 
nothing more.


Lynn:

Actually, Hogwarts sounds like a typical Muggle Middle and High School.  Unless you go to a specialized high school, you don't come out of high school with the ability to do any specialized work.  You still will need to go on to either university, technical school, or apprenticeship.  It's there that you get your qualifications.  Heck, many of my former classmates went on to college without any idea of what they finally wanted to do and it wasn't until their third year that they declared their major.  

So, I guess what you are saying is that the middle and high school we know today is nothing more than summer camp and we should abandon it becuase after all these centuries we still haven't thought through its purpose?

Just because JKR hasn't filled out the magical world in a way you understand doesn't mean that there aren't many different employment opportunities available.  Who says someone can't be an investment banker in the magical world.  After all, we know that Bill works for Gringotts, first as a cursebreaker but he now works at home so I'm sure he's still not looking for treasure.  He has to be doing other things as well.  We know there has to be a whole manufacturing industry otherwise how would there be new sports equipment or cauldrons or quills and parchment.

Perhaps it is just my imagination that allows me to see a full and complete magical world without JKR having to dot every i and cross every t for me to see it.

Lynn

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