If Hogwarts School was real would you have loved to have gone?

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  • Speak-SoftlySpeak-Softly Posts: 24,737
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    riceuten wrote: »
    Still pathetic that people should think that going to boarding school is anything like Hogwarts.

    Hang on.:o

    Are you admitting that it's a place that you weren't visiting just last week or somewhere where you have been living for a couple of years?

    That must be a first.:D
  • treefr0gtreefr0g Posts: 23,596
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    I cannot think of a better childhood than going to Hogwarts.

    Trouble is, I'd probably be about 25 stone by the time I'd left.
  • Ethel_FredEthel_Fred Posts: 34,127
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    4) Apparently 1/4 of all students who go through the school are written off as deviants by the other 3/4.
    Quite a low percentage for a private school
    treefr0g wrote: »
    I cannot think of a better childhood than going to Hogwarts.
    If you lived
  • MissWalfordMissWalford Posts: 728
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    I never understood why expulsion should mean you have your wand snapped in half. Surely you can't be denied your birth right to magic?
  • MissWalfordMissWalford Posts: 728
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    riceuten wrote: »
    Still pathetic that people should think that going to boarding school is anything like Hogwarts.

    Who does? We are talking about going to Hogwarts.
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 29,701
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    Who does? We are talking about going to Hogwarts.

    :D:D:D:D
  • Trsvis_BickleTrsvis_Bickle Posts: 9,202
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    riceuten wrote: »
    Still pathetic that people should think that going to boarding school is anything like Hogwarts.

    Of course, what must be infuriating to socialists like yourself is that J K Rowling (ironically a self-professed socialist) chose to set her children's stories, not in an inner-city comprehensive complete with an ethnically-diverse pupil population and the other trappings of political correctness but a traditional public school setting that makes Ampleforth look like Hackney comp.:D

    I remember an officer cadet at Sandhurst commenting that it was like Hogwarts with guns.:D
  • Hugh JboobsHugh Jboobs Posts: 15,316
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    3) It's apparently normal for many children to spend the whole year there including school holidays, even though their parents could pick them up every night by apparation.

    You CAN'T apparate in the grounds of Hogwarts. Don't you know anything?!?!
  • MissWalfordMissWalford Posts: 728
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    You CAN'T apparate in the grounds of Hogwarts. Don't you know anything?!?!

    Definitely a muggle. :D
  • Granny McSmithGranny McSmith Posts: 19,622
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    bspace wrote: »
    a would rather have attended the Unseen University

    a fantasy teaching environment with the advantage of not being derivative of far superior writers

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    Riddikulus!
    dodrade wrote: »
    I could never understand why they kept a house full of evil wizards in the school either.

    Also Quidditch's scoring system is fundamentally flawed. Giving 150 points for the golden snitch means whoever gets it almost always wins the game so the other players apart from the seekers are irrelevant.

    Sorry, but were you at the Quidditch World Cup, when Krum caught the snitch for Bulgaria, but Ireland won the game?

    The scoring system is actually quite complex.

    I would not like to go to Hogwarts, because I'm not brave, not clever, not hardworking and not ambitious, so I don't see what house I could be sorted into. :(

    But I'd like to visit to see a Quidditch match. :)
  • Stormwave UKStormwave UK Posts: 5,088
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    I wonder if the students would all fail GCSEs? Since they learn no basic skills in school. Where is maths, or science, or English?
  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 7,888
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    Yes! I'd have been in Gryffindor according to Pottermore and Slytherin according to my friends.
  • thefairydandythefairydandy Posts: 3,235
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    You CAN'T apparate in the grounds of Hogwarts. Don't you know anything?!?!

    Well you wouldn't apparate into the grounds. That'd be silly. But Hogwarts, like any other school, has school gates. Or they could have daily portkeys (which did occasionally get used).

    Oh and 5) Detentions! Anything from a bit gross (disembowelling frog) to downright dangerous (pursuing murderous beasts in a forest infested with centaurs, spiders and other beasts).
  • Phaz0rPhaz0r Posts: 907
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    Of course. I would've joined the Death Eaters and squinted evilly at everyone too.
  • ScrabblerScrabbler Posts: 50,938
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    Phaz0r wrote: »
    Of course. I would've joined the Death Eaters and squinted evilly at everyone too.

    Me too and I'd teach Voldy a thing or two about being evil.
  • IofielIofiel Posts: 1,144
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    My roots have always been in Hufflepuff ... but I prefer Ravenclaw ... Accio Big Beefy Rugby Players ...
  • MissWalfordMissWalford Posts: 728
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    I wonder if the students would all fail GCSEs? Since they learn no basic skills in school. Where is maths, or science, or English?

    Incorporated into their lessons.

    Science and maths would be in subjects like potions, herbology, transfiguration, and arithmancy.

    Your English skills would be covered by all the essay writing they have to do in all the lessons.
  • MissWalfordMissWalford Posts: 728
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    Not sure about games, you seem to get a few flying lessons at most and that's it. You would think there would be more physical exercise for them, unless all the food is magically calorie free.
  • MissWalfordMissWalford Posts: 728
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    Yes! I'd have been in Gryffindor according to Pottermore and Slytherin according to my friends.

    Slytherin is the best house of course.
  • RooftopcowboyRooftopcowboy Posts: 7,234
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    Slytherin is the best house of course.

    Indeed, you can swagger about the school with your nose upturned, knowing that you have the Dark Lord himself on your side if things turn nasty :D

    with real teenage kids the school would of course be absolutely chaos...I can only imagine what me and my mates would have got up to!:D
  • Super FrogSuper Frog Posts: 11,480
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    Yes just not at the same time as Harry and co because that shit was just crazy
  • RooftopcowboyRooftopcowboy Posts: 7,234
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    Love it! particularly the Michael Jackson/Voldermort reference:D
  • CadivaCadiva Posts: 18,409
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    Fizzbin wrote: »
    Ook .

    Surely that should be Ook? with perhaps a small ook on the side and a hefty dose of banana skins.
  • ROWLING2010ROWLING2010 Posts: 3,909
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    Children of witches and wizards are usually home schooled but I've always wondered how the parents of muggle born witches and wizards get around the fact that their children suddenly stopped attending school aged 11.
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