GoF queries ... foreign students' studies

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 186104

Lynda wrote:
> > <snip> They would of course still be having classes just like Harry does.
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> 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.


Carol responds:

Since the story is written from Harry's pov, we don't really know what happened with the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students, so we're free to speculate. Viktor Krum spent a lot of time in the library (but not studying). He and Fleur would also have spent time preparing for each task (we see Viktor swimming in the cold lake, for example, before the second task). Their classmates, however, would have no tasks to prepare for, and, if the Beauxbatons students take their exams after the sixth year as Fleur says, their seventh year is just bonus study, anyway.

However, I can't see a bunch of students from two foreign schools just running around loose around the Hogwarts school and grounds, especially after someone (we know who but DD and his staff don't) put Harry's name in the GoF. They would need to be supervised and they would need something to do (other than eating and sleeping). I see three possibilities: 1) The headmaster or headmistress tutored them in the equivalent of NEWT DADA, Potions, Charms, and Transfiguration (the most important subjects, which probably don't differ that much from the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang curriculum except that Durmstrang ostensibly taught the Dark Arts); 2) the students studied on their own, perhaps using owls to send assignments to their instructors back home, with access to the Hogwarts library and occasional help from the headmaster or -mistress (Madame Maxime being probably more accessible in this regard than Professor Karkaroff); or 3) the Durmstrang and Beauzbatons attended (or at least sat in on) the Hogwarts NEWT-level classes in Potions, DADA, Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, and any others of interest to them such as Astronomy or Ancient Runes (probably not Muggle Studies, at least among the Durmstrang students). I suspect that Snape, for example, would have been more than happy to work with any gifted Potions students from other schools.

Carol, who thinks that Madame Maxime and Karkaroff must have done *some* teaching, if only to their champions, or they'd have been as bored as their students by the long stay at Hogwarts