I learned guns real good in elementary school

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well they learn to read before they are 11 years old...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The ones from wizarding families are probably homeschooled and the muggleborn ones go to public school and try not to turn the teacher's hair blue.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

*wig. I'm almost certain on that :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Where did their parents learn to read? And their parents? Especially in pure blood families?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...from their parents. They were homeschooled. ^

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't think you fully understand.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Okeyyy, where did the muggleborns' teachers learn to read? And their teachers? I don't get it. :c

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm not talking about muggle borns, I'm talking about pure bloods. Everyone in their family would be a wizard, and they never mentioned some kind of pre-wizard elementary school. And they didn't go to muggle school because 1 they'd give themselves away all the time and 2 reasons mention in post ^ Muggle borns would have gone to regular school because that's what muggle parents have their kids do,

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...I'm saying, what's the point k trying trace back where the pure blood parent learned how to read? Can't it just be assumed that somewhere along the line a caveman wizard leaned how to read and taught passed it down to their child, just like a caveman teacher did for the muggle born? ...I really do not even understand what we are talking about now.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe for a few purebloods, and they could pass it down their family, but that happening to them all is unlikely and as a former education to Hogwarts was not mentioned I am left to wonder where did they learn to read and write the same language as muggle.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

J.K. Rowling has said that in moat cases, their parents teach them before Hogwarts. ._.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Please realize Harry Potter is a fiction book series, and asking questions like that is as pointless as asking "Why does Spongebob live in a pineapple?" Cue Harry Potter fanatics to vote my comment down.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm a Harry Potter fanatic, but I think you're correct... Am I an outcast? D:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, you're one of the cool fans who can keep their love of the books from spilling into everything they write. :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Call me red-meat, because I'm rare. ;)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Really? I was under the impression Harry Potter was real and that this post was relevant to the real world.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Sarcasm?! How unexpected of you!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They either went to a normal muggle school or were homeschooled.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

why do you think the currency's all messed up 1 Galleon=17 Sickles 1 Sickle=29 Knuts ???

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well seeing as wizards don't use guns or electricity, it makes sense that the kids wouldn't know what they were... And their parents could definitely teach them to read and write. They have magic, and live completely different lifestyles than Muggles do, so it makes sense that they wouldn't learn the same things as we do as kids. Look at me, writing as though they're real xD

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm saying in school you learn about who invented light bulbs and wars and all that in school. Who taught their parents? And them? Especially in pure blood families?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes, you do, but when you're a wizard, you don't need to concern yourself with Muggle inventions and wars, unless they involved wizards. Their parents were probably taught to read and write by their parents, etc. As for who first taught them, well who first taught us? It's the same sort of beginning, only separate from us.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We had a school to teach us. It's pretty weird pure blood parents some how learned the muggle language and spoke and spelled it the same and all of them passed it on with no schools.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well adult wizards' jobs often have to do with the Muggle world, so that's like when somebody goes and lives in a different country - when you're immersed in a culture, you tend to learn the language better. And it's like kids who are homeschooled. We're also having this argument about a fictional book series. (: (Oh, and by "us", I meant people in general who aren't wizards. Like, if you go back long enough, it wasn't all schools, it was families and parents and whatever.)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, like keeping them safe from bewitched tea sets from dead witches. Arthur Weasly only had one other guy in his department. Though there are more departments for different muggle needs. None of them involve reading.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No, I was saying more like people involved with the Statute of Secrecy, the Minister himself (he works with the Muggle prime minister to solve issues), and loads of other parts of the Ministry. It's like foreign relations-type jobs, only about twice as many, so a lot of them have to be at least partially immersed in Muggle culture. And reading, as I said before, would be something that the parents teach the kids. But seriously. Fiction.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Being involved with muggles doesn't mean they need to know how to do anything they do. Then why are you arguing about it!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That suggests that muggles and wizards didn't start out together. I don't want to start a religious debate, but, they all had to start as 1 being, and eventually, there was either a squib that branched off into today's muggle population, or there was a muggleborn who left the muggles (obviously not all of them or else he/she wouldn't have offspring). Judging by the fact that purebloodedness is "important", I would guess that there was at some point an actual pureblood, which would suggest the former. Anyway, it's not like wizards don't interact with muggles. Especially at the beginning, where one of the factions would have been to survive alone. My point being, your are suggesting that the language they speak, be it english, or any other, is "the muggle language", while in "reality", it most likely originated from wizards. In reference to the question of how they pass on their language without elementary schools, the parent teach them. Same with all those other things that you learn in elementary school. That's why Ron is always talking about things his dad told him, because that's where he learned every thing.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Dude, just a book......

by Anonymous 12 years ago

To expand on your point, where do they learn more advanced stuff? we learn things like algebra and science stuff after we turn 11. I found this post a while ago.644803 (i cant post links so just use this number.)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you learn about guns in elementary school?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes. We learned that some countries won wars with other countries because of the advanced weapons they had called guns.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They went to muggle primary/first schools. Though the weasley's were all home schooled :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago