joisbishmyoga:

Here’s another something frightening about Harry Potter.  (I have so many of those headcanons that Hogwarts is terrifying.)

Justin Finch-Fletchley was going to go to Eton.  Hermione Granger is, well, Hermione Granger, if her parents were going to send her off to boarding school they’d have sent her to, like, wherever gets her into Oxford by age 15.  And yet they go to Hogwarts.  HOGWARTS.  Some school they’ve never heard of, where they aren’t going to be educated with royalty and nobility and diplomats’ kids, or be on track for their first doctorate by 25, or anything.  Hogwarts doesn’t have math, or foreign languages, or even literature.  What kind of school doesn’t teach literature, Muggle parents ask?  (And ask, and ask, so many questions, so much ignorant disapproval and distrust about a perfectly normal and clearly objectively better education, how very frustrating!)

And what do good wizards do when faced with Muggles frustrating them?

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