[HPforGrownups] Re: GoF queries ... foreign students' studies

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 186097

>> samajdar_parantap:
>> And all the foreign students who were not competing stayed
>> for the whole year to cheer for their champions. Doesn't
>> make much sense.
>>
>> Lynda:
>> I don't see why not. They would of course still be having
>> classes just like Harry does.
>
> samajdar_parantap:
> How will they? They are with just one teacher .. it will be
> kind of self-study for them.  In case they attend Hogwarts
> classes - I doubt their curriculum can integrate seamlessly.
> But yeah - we don't have any information to debate on that.


I always wondered if the students had some sort of fireplace and flue powder 
available to them on the ship and carriage, so that they traveled to their 
classes daily at their regular school and then back again to Hogwarts for 
lunch and for the rest of the time. I imagine they could choose lunch at 
either place, if they had enough flue powder to last the entire year, which 
I am sure was arranged beforehand. Certainly, in the cooperation between 
Ministries of Magic and schools, arrangements could have been made for the 
connections to be made for the students to continue to take their normal 
classes. It didn't make much sense to me that Kararoff or Madame Maxine 
alone was their sole teacher, since they would have other duties and events 
to attend to during that time as representatives of their respective 
schools. It also doesn't make sense for them to take Hogwart's classes, as 
the Hogwarts teachers would have a disincentive to teaching the champions 
anything that would have helped them, and the schedules/classes wouldn't 
have aligned. Plus, imagine the hero's welcome even the other students who 
didn't get to compete would have on their daily arrival back at their 
school, since they were witnesses and could report back on what Hogwarts was 
like, what happened at each test, and all that was new that they saw. But, 
even if they didn't have fireplaces connected, I imagine there were magical 
means for the homework and exercises to be delivered to them daily. This was 
a magical world, after all. Daily memories of the classes could have been 
delivered in small vials, and a pensive kept aboard the ship and carriage so 
the students could attend that class that way. We don't have information on 
how they did it, but the subject certainly would provide lots of basis for 
fan writings or spin off stories.

Shelley