[HPforGrownups] Hermione and her parents redux WAS:Re: Wizarding Top Ten

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 188137

rick:
> It's not the Granger's world, they didn't grow up with terror of the 
> first rise of TDL to power.  In the Granger circles--well educated 
> professionals--you don't really let go of your kids until after 
> university, preferably after graduate school, say around 24. 
>
> It is actually amazing, when you think on it, that they'd let Hg go to 
> Hogwarts at all.  When compared to the Granger's schooling, a Hogwarts 
> training is more trade school than traditional education. 

Bart:
    In many countries (including Great Britain, I believe), trade 
schools are far more than they are in the United States (although the 
United States has some notable exceptions, like the Culinary Institutes 
of America). In Europe, trade schools are more than learning the basic 
skills to start at the bottom and stay there; they learn every aspect of 
the trade as a career, from the bottom level work to running a business 
dedicated to the trade (for example, the CIA in the U.S. teaches every 
task in the kitchen, waiting tables, and everything in between up to and 
including owning and running a restaurant). America has a conceit that 
anything short of a liberal arts college or an engineering school is for 
those who are too stupid to make it elsewhere, but I do not believe that 
is the attitude that JKR grew up with.

    Bart