Hogwarts

[TheFoodtheFadandtheFugly]

I just wondered if anyone fancied a chat about that favourite Scottish wizarding castle, and how it educates its magical student body.

I've always liked:

• how it gives students a detention for wandering around the castle at night when it is forbidden and because it's particularly dangerous … where they go at night to wander around a forbidden and definitely dangerous forest.

• teachers never seem to marry, have children or a home life

• you never come to visit your children at school, as a parent, or they never go home for weekend visits

• if you live pretty close to the castle, do you still have to go all the way to London and then get the train back?!

Anyway, I am re-reading book 1 at the moment and always loving it, always bits I have forgotten or enjoy reading again.

There’s some good history from pottermore about Mcgonagall’s love life! And I think it’s probably quite easy for wizards to get down to London for the sake of the traditional journey, must be a struggle for muggleborns though. Unless it’s not compulsory and it’s just another thing unobservant Harry didn’t notice

I wondered about this! Pottermore states that it's compulsory for children to use the train to get to Hogwarts. However, Hogsmeade is the only entirely magical settlement in Britain. The train goes into Hogsmeade station. Presumably some children live in Hogsmeade.

So if you live in Hogsmeade, do you actually need to leave Hogsmeade to go to London in order to get to Hogsmeade to go to school? My head hurts...

I have wondered about the Hogsmeade thing too, if I lived there with my wizarding kids then no way would they be boarding!

And its hardly practical for a wizarding family who live in say, Carlisle, to drive all the way to London for train, so perhaps other arrangements are made for muggle borns who cant use the floo network.

Muggle family, not wizarding

I love how some of the things in magic world are so much better than muggle land but to be honest I think email beats owl post and normal biros beat quills. And does parchment come in a notebook or just loose leaf? Again, notebooks do a fine job here.

My son has just started on the books now whilst I read them 18 or so years ago and it’s so interesting to see them through his eyes “why don’t they have all the spells on the internet instead of having to go through all the books?” etc