Teaching at Hogwarts

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I've been listening to the Harry Potter series, nearly finished book 3, and it has set me thinking about the teaching there.

None of the staff seem to have a teaching qualification or any training, just rock up at the school and go.

Hagrid's first lesson Malfoy gets attacked, as a science teacher you wouldn't try a risky practical without knowing the class first.

Supervision in the house areas, is there any at all? Ever?

Have you read anything about teachers/teaching/schools that has made you smile?

I thought Durmstrang was in Eastern Europe?

It's a common bugbear with the film - for some reason they made the other schools out to be single sex when they aren't.

Nope, Durmstrang has always been Scandinavian.

EggysMom I managed to find the Ofsted report.

petewharmby.blogspot.com/2013/02/ofsted-report-hogwarts-school-of.html

Durmstrang is eastern european possible Russia. Viktor Krum is Bulgarian.

Did anyone sort themselves into their houses on pottermore? I am slytherin and we are grossly reprisented. Tonks mother Andromeda was a slytherin too.

Did Madge Bettany have any teaching qualifications when she set up the Chalet School?

Is hog warts not in Scotland? If so it would be HMIE not ofsted.

They're nicer but I still think they would shut the place immediately!

If you want another school where staff rock up and leave at random, including random departments completely vanishing without a trace when their key staff characters leave...

Where the hell did the English department in Waterloo Road vanish to?! MFL seemed to appear and disappear at random too - supply teachers were always revealed to be raging psychopaths by lunchtime too.

Poor Mrs Wesley homeschool all those kids, especially Fred and George.

And what about the yr 6 transition events? How do you turn around to the primary head and say 'Oh Hermione won't be going to Bog Comp or St Adolphs, she's going to a school for witches and wizards. No they don't want to see her primary books, her SATs results or have her for a transition day. We just have to turn up in September to Kings Cross to a platform which doesn't exist and she will run into a wall. Now I have said it out loud I am beginning to wonder whether putting her in for the 11 plus instead would have been a good idea.'

No, Durmstrang is Scandinavian. Not Russian. I think JK Rowling should know, seeing as she created it. She said that they "accept students from as far as Bulgaria", which is why Krum was there.

Slytherin aren't underrepresented at all, they're the second most popular house to be sorted into.

Hogwarts is in Scotland, so it wouldn't be Ofsted.

Re the transition events for the muggle borns don't the teachers (head of houses I think) come to the homes of the students to explain everything? Might there some sort of aroura-ing type thing, perhaps they obliviate the primary school teachers memories so no questions are asked?

But then if it was following Scottish rules wouldn't Harry would be 12 when he started Secondary school?

I never understood that detention where Ron had to clean out bedpans without magic. Did Hogwarts have a nursing home?

• grossly misrepresented. Reprisented as all being bad.

Ah I always thought it was eastern europe as Krum was Bulgarian. My mistake. Wasnt well explained at all in the stories.

Oh yes then, Slytherins aren't all bad at all. I'm married to one

I don't think Durmstrang was explained at all in the books, it was only after that she confirmed it's location.

Hogwarts has a hospital wing where they use bedpans.

But most of the patients would be able bodied teenagers. How many bedpans would it produce?

Durmastrang and Beauxbatons are mixed sex in the books, but single sex in the films. It’s one of my massive bugbears about the film!

The bit where the Beauxbatons girls come wafting into the great hall, prancing around going “aaahhhhhh” makes me want to set fire to myself.

I thought it wasnt. Which is a shame because durmstrang sounded a dark and interesting school.

Yes I think jk rowling had to make a point after pottermore was launched and lots of angry slytherins complained about being portrayed as evil.

Ravenclaw gget hardly any merchendise.
Trelawney probably would never be allowed to work in a school of she was a muggle.

SnuggyBuggy - the Hogwarts Hospital wing has a LOT of patients. Magical accidents are daily and I'd imagine they'd go through a lot of bedpans.

Also maybe they still have the old total bed rest policy that hospitals used to have.

It's made me wonder what the petrified ones did. Presumably their bladders were petrified too

Is it like a coma or could you just leave them lying there like a statue? Is there a time limit as to how long you can leave them?

I want to know why Dumbledore could spot a petrified student/cat by just looking at them for two minutes. However he failed to notice Lord Voldemort under that Turban for the best part of a year.

But then if it was following Scottish rules wouldn't Harry would be 12 when he started Secondary school

Depends when his birthday is March - August he'd be 12, August to February he'd be 11.

But I assumed Hogwards was in Cornwall