[HPforGrownups] Basic Education

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 148654


On Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at 10:41 PM, Rebecca Dreiling wrote:

> Rebecca writes:
> I've always wondered about this particular thing.  I'm sure
> that it has to have been discussed but I'm curious to hear people 
> opinions
> on it now.
>
> If most wizarding children don't start school until they enter Hogwarts
> where do they learn to read and write?  I don't recall any mention of 
> it in
> the first book so I assume there isn't a basic english class.
> I know that Harry went to school before he entered Hogwarts but he was
> raised in a muggle house so it would make sense that he was taught to 
> read.

kchuplis:

I don't know if this was a suggestion I read here or something in the 
books or an article, but I thought that some homeschooled until then 
(the Weasley's in particular I think this applied to) or some might go 
to public schools even if not muggles?