[HPforGrownups] Re: The Quality of a Hogwarts Education

[Rick H. Kennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 188159


> Modern wizard education may be failing to turn out well rounded
> people, but it is failing no worse than common modern muggle
> education.
>   

As a general rule, though, academically & professionally successful 
parents turn out the same kind of kids.  Certainly Hg demonstrated 
academic talent, drive, and ability, so she would have been successful 
in the Muggle world. 

I just can't imagine Hg, having grown up in the modern world, wanting to 
return to pre-WWII Europe (or New Zealand, circa 2002), which is what 
the Wizarding World seems to be like--Radio but no TV or movies, Mom & 
Pop Shops not Malls, Private Hotels and not La Quinta, Newspapers but 
not Computers, Pen and Ink but no word processors--except the QQQ, Pure 
Blood mania with scapegoats like Mudbloods and Jews taking the brunt of 
the abuse, all with Voldemort/Hitler on the rise.  Ms. W can swish and 
flick to run Mr. W's vest from the washer and through the mangle, but 
why not just just drop it in the Kenmore?  Or she could load the 
dishwasher instead of setting a spell to work scrubbing dishes. 

I read Jane Austen books (and see the movies) and I can't help but think 
how boring life was for those people living it, not to mention somebody 
that had experienced life in the late 19th or 20th century.  There are 
no really clear advantages (other than finding love) for Hg to choose 
the WW over Muggleville. 

-- 

Rick Kennerly
Virginia Beach, VA
www.mouseherder.com 
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