Flunkies & Drop Outs
Sep. 7th, 2010 02:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Sitting here, playing Bejeweled & a weird random thought came to me.
In the Harry Potter universe, what happens to kids who flunk out of the wizarding schools? What if they cannot, no matter how hard they try, pass the OWLS? Do they get to keep being wizards & practice magic, or do they get stripped of their wizarding abilities & turned into muggles? Do they end up as food vendors or customer service agents? Can a wizard in the Potter world be too stupid to use magic?
I mean, IRL America we have public schools & private schools. Usually if you flunk out of public school they hold you back, but there's a limit. Most of the mentally deficient kids end up in Vo-Tech or trade schools, or they hit the legal drop-out age & do exactly that - drop out, get a job. Usually at McDonald's. In private schools, there's probably a higher incentive to keep kids in school as long as possible, mainly because of those big fat tuition checks, but I imagine there's a limit to what will and won't be tolerated as well.
In the Harry Potter universe, what happens to kids who flunk out of the wizarding schools? What if they cannot, no matter how hard they try, pass the OWLS? Do they get to keep being wizards & practice magic, or do they get stripped of their wizarding abilities & turned into muggles? Do they end up as food vendors or customer service agents? Can a wizard in the Potter world be too stupid to use magic?
I mean, IRL America we have public schools & private schools. Usually if you flunk out of public school they hold you back, but there's a limit. Most of the mentally deficient kids end up in Vo-Tech or trade schools, or they hit the legal drop-out age & do exactly that - drop out, get a job. Usually at McDonald's. In private schools, there's probably a higher incentive to keep kids in school as long as possible, mainly because of those big fat tuition checks, but I imagine there's a limit to what will and won't be tolerated as well.
