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icepixieI have an SG-1 fic. It's a crossover. Kind of. In a certain manner. After a fashion. I'm waiting for a certain someone to tell me if it's too ridiculous to see the light of day, or if it might make some people giggle. Not too sure about it myself, but I'm bowing to her judgement. You may see it here soon. :)
To go vaguely with the above, I have an HP question. So the Hogwarts students get seven years of magical instruction, but what about regular subjects you learn in school, like English and math? (Not that I think anyone should have to suffer through Calculus--hell, I don't even use any algebra I managed to retain--but if first-year students at Hogwarts are the same age as sixth-graders here, then I remember I still hadn't mastered fractions by that point.) Do they have a "Magical Literature" class that no one ever mentions? Has anyone come up with a good answer to/rationalization for this?
To go vaguely with the above, I have an HP question. So the Hogwarts students get seven years of magical instruction, but what about regular subjects you learn in school, like English and math? (Not that I think anyone should have to suffer through Calculus--hell, I don't even use any algebra I managed to retain--but if first-year students at Hogwarts are the same age as sixth-graders here, then I remember I still hadn't mastered fractions by that point.) Do they have a "Magical Literature" class that no one ever mentions? Has anyone come up with a good answer to/rationalization for this?
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Date: 2003-06-29 07:18 pm (UTC)Wondered the same basic thing. My guess (rationalization) is that Hogwarts is kinda like very vocational ed - what they learn of the "regular" stuff (and the context of it) depends on how much they'll actually need it to be wizards. ie, Herbology & Potions are their Bio and Chem classes, Arithmancy is math, etc. Physics would come in with flying and apparition, etc. It's all very practical/applied. As far as lit and stuff - dunno. I'm guessing that what they don't technically study, they're expected to pick up via other classes/assignments to the extent that they need it. Or get at home. Or maybe there's summer school. *snerk* (And hey, maybe that's why their essays never have to be that long... *g*)
So, seriously. I've wondered the same thing, but kind of chalk it up to the whole suspension of disbelief thing. I guess the overall idea is probably that if they come across something they don't know, they have some magical way of dealing with it. And that magic allows them to not have to know the technicalities of a lot of stuff. My two cents, at least. :)
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Date: 2003-06-30 08:40 am (UTC)(And hey, maybe that's why their essays never have to be that long... *g*)
*snerk* I'm still bitter about that. ;) I have this image in my mind of all wizard letters/memos/reports/etc. being horribly written because no one ever taught them grammar or composition, and everyone having to cast accounting spells to do more than long division...