[HPforGrownups] worried about Harry's schooling

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 168972

Lauren wrote:
>
> Hi,
> At the end of HBP, Hogwarts was such a scary place that it seemed it would
> be shut down.  I am worried that JKR will not have Harry finish his
> schooling in order to find all of the horcruxes.  I don't think this would
> encourage kids to finish school.  I hope he does, but I am worried.


montims:
As other people have written, Hogwarts is based on the British education
system.  There, you have to stay at school till 16 (has that changed yet?).
Those who can, sit what in my day were the "O" Levels and then leave.  They
can also leave without taking any exams if they have attended for the
legally required number of years.  If they are clever, and want to, they can
stay at school for another 2 years and take what were "A" Levels,  This is
not obligatory, but required for certain jobs, or to enter university.  In
Britain, they do not have baccalaureat, or matriculation, or high school
graduation, or any other of the different foreign school final exams...

Percy got his good job at the Ministry because he had good NEWTS.  The twins
decided their OWLS were enough.  If Stan Shunpike, for example, had failed
all of his OWLS, and not returned to school to take his NEWTS, he would
still have "finished his schooling".

Besides, I feel that muggle kids reading a series of stories concerning a
magical, fictional child's attempts to defeat the greatest threat to the
wizarding world, would not take his consequent inability to attend the final
year of Hogwarts as an excuse for them to bunk off...  That would be foolish
to the extreme.  And if they do have a horcrux hunt to complete, I trust
they would be excused lessons...


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