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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.)
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
Oooh, no. I should go read that.
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.
Oh, I know. But that doesn't stop me from hoping.
This is part 3. All three parts are surprisingly good and give you the sense that JKR has an affection and respect for her fans.
IIRC, JKR contacted the two website-runners to have them come out to Scotland for the interview, since she wanted to have adult fans' questions answered as much as the "cub reporters" questions. That interview is wonderfully stuffed with info on backstory and the first six books, as well as hints as to what might be coming up in Book 7.
