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What. Jilli. Said.
Yes. That.
They are, as many of you have guessed, most often home educated.
This just makes me shudder. Not that I'm dissing home education in general - I reckon that the handful of parents (in reality) who do this don't make the decision lightly, and one-on-one tuition is the ideal in many ways. But for a whole civilized society to be doing that?
Ngah! JKR, how
could
you? It wouldn't be so hard to tell us that there are Wizarding Nurseries! Plus - cute! And funny! And the teachers should get danger money!
But for a whole civilized society to be doing that?
Maybe there are professional tutors. I doubt Narcissa was sitting in the schoolroom teaching Draco how to multiply.
I don't think home-educated negates nurseries and what-not. She could mean they don't have formal schools, but rather informal groups for children with rotating parent/teachers teaching them the basics.
t /fanwank
It wouldn't be so hard to tell us that there are Wizarding Nurseries! Plus - cute! And funny! And the teachers should get danger money!
gently pokes Fay some more to write this
But for a whole civilized society to be doing that?
That just doesn't mesh with my view of wizarding society. Considering most of wizarding society is so far removed from contact with the Muggle world that they are bemusedly confused by things like batteries and rubber ducks and that there are Muggle Studies classes available at Hogwarts, it doesn't seem too much of a stretch that there are Witch/Wizard -only primary schools.
Maybe there are professional tutors.
I read a fanfic somewhere in which this is what Remus did before he got the DADA position before PoA.
Fay and Jilli, did you read the JKR 3 part interview at muggle.net or the leaky cauldron? I ask because the interviewers pose the question about people other than James being in love with Lilly.
Has it been said which chapter from HPB was originally in CoS?
I don't know if it was one complete chapter (although the first one in HBP has been written for quite some time, according to JKR), but I think the entire "the diary is a Horcrux" issue was removed from CoS and put into HBP.
That's what I was thinking as well.
I believe it was Chapter One.
(And I'm almost tempted to write about Wee!Wizards at Primary School, Jilli. Except that there are so many things I should be writing right now. Mostly I'm pecking away at an Original Novel, type thing. (12,000 words so far, which is a measly 3 chapters. Sigh. Although I've been doing a lot of
thinking
about it, and characters, even when not actually, er, writing.)
