psychopath / Kingsley / education for wizarding students

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 184223

Pippin wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184172>;

<< How do you see being unable to feel remorse or connection to others
as forcing Voldemort to become a murderer? Voldemort gained nothing by
killing that he could not have achieved by other means, except the
pleasure of killing itself, and he could have got that by killing
animals, as his uncle Morfin did. >>

It didn't force LV to become a murderer, but it prevented him from
noticing or comprehending that murder is evil, thus being a reason
other than risk of getting caught and being punished for sublimating
on poor animals. Being unable to feel or care how his victims might
feel about being murdered and how their survivors might feel about it,
how would he know it was evil?

Sarah wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184178>:

<< What I always wanted to know is how Kingsley was able to handle a
high level desk job so efficiently. He used the word "firelegs" a year
earlier, and now he suddenly knows Windows 95? >>

Carol replied in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184181>:

<< I always thought that Kingsley was using "firelegs" on purpose as
part of his pretense that he and Arthur aren't on intimate terms. It
gives Arthur the chance to publicly correct him (in the next breath
whispering that Molly is making meatballs and inviting Kingsley to
dinner). >>

I kind of agree with Carol. I figure Kingsley knew not only the word
'firearms', but more than I do about how they work, but said
'firelegs' deliberately because even when Fudge was Minster, it was
not good for one's Ministry career to show too much knowledge of
Muggles around one's fellow Ministry employees.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184179>:

<< even a magically forged grade report from an accredited high school
wouldn't help that student to pass the entrance exams or the
university classes once she got in. I suppose she could study for the
university courses at the same time she studied for her NEWTS
(assuming that she wasn't taking as many courses as Hermione), but
Hogwarts itself certainly provides inadequate preparation for
university-level classes in literature, foreign languages, math, the
sciences, and Muggle history, to name only those subjects that come
immediately to my mind. >>

I suppose such a student would finish at Hogwrts and only then start
studying the Muggle university pre-requisite subjects. I expect they
would want to study independently, with correspondence classses, or
with tutors, at least until University level, but if one wanted to go
to Muggle secondary school, a magically forged birth certificate and
an Illusion of looking younger should make that possible. 

I can imagine a student wanting to join a good Muggle Sixth Form to
prepare for A-levels, after having passed GCSEs via 'home schooling'.
I can also imagine students not wanting to join Muggle eductional
institutions until grad school, so they would study independently at
university undergrad level and show up with a magically forged decree
from a foreign university.  

They might be able to get stipends to live on, and scholarships for
the tuitions, from the few well-placed wizards (such as DD while he
was alive) who believe that the wizarding community needs better
contact with Muggles.

Bruce Alan Wilson wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/184189>:

<< According to JKR, most Wizardling children are homeschooled. >>

I like to think that wizarding 'home schooling' includes several
families getting together to hire a tutor to teach their children
together, and some witches operating small schools, in their homes or
elsewhere, that accept fee-paying pupils.