The Quality of a Hogwarts Education

[Susan A]

No: HPFGUIDX 188252

SSSusan:
> > I really don't get what you're saying when you say she was a 
> > child of the internet cast back into 1945.  What in canon tells 
> > us that Hermione loved and desired her Muggle life much more than 
> > her Wizarding World life? Or that she missed things she would've 
> > had in the MW that she no longer had access to or could achieve 
> > in the WW?  

rick:
> I think you missed the preceding messages.  The argument was that 
> Hg was well educated for her age and her parents--well educated and 
> successful professional--would have had conveyed expectations and 
> hopes for her future.  Well educated professionals tend to breed 
> well educated professionals.  

SSSusan:
No, I don't think I did.  I read a number of the posts and I understand your position that well-educated professionals tend to breed (or, I'd say, raise) well-educated professionals.

What I was not following was the point of the phrase you used.  But that's okay.  I do not disagree with you about the point of the tendency from parents to child.

On the other hand, when you say this:

Rick:
> I just don't see Hg really working out in the WW or being happy 
> with a high school education, particularly when the life she'd been 
> dropped into was some 50 years behind her times (any more than Ron 
> would have worked out well in the muggle world 50 years ahead 
> of his time). 

SSSusan:
I stick to my previous question.  See below....

SSSusan:
> > So I'd ask again, what is there in canon which shows us the 
> > *opposite* for Hermione?  That is, what shows us she was less 
> > satisfied, less fulfilled in the WW?  Isn't this actually you 
> > putting *onto* her certain desires and hopes for her life based 
> > upon talents you see in her?  How do we know she would concur 
> > that life in the RW would've been more fulfilling?
   
rick:
> I think this round cooked off when I referred to Hogwarts as a 
> trade school education.

SSSusan:
I still don't see this as answering my question.  Because my question is:  Are you not simply projecting *your* definition of what a successful and fulfilling life looks like for someone born to well-educated professionals onto Hermione?  How do you know, from canon, that she wanted the life you're saying she would surely have wanted?  

Simply because there is a tendency for a well-educated professional to breed (or raise) another doesn't mean it's a given, nor that for each individual child of well-educated professionals, those desires are internalized.  Some find other things makes their lives fulfilling.  That's what I'm questioning.  How do we KNOW Hermione felt as you suggest?  It seems presumptive to me, is all.

Siriusly Snapey Susan