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Did Severus attend Muggle school?

[info]prinzheinelgirl
7/4/08 05:08 pm
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Hello, everyone!

I would like to get your opinions on whether Severus attended a Muggle school before going to Hogwarts or was he home-schooled (by his mother)? Or perhaps he mainly taught himself?

Everyone attends Hogwarts at age 11 or 12. By this age, students know how to read and write, etc. Given that Severus is a half-blood and resided in a Muggle town, do you think he went to Muggle school? If so, he should've met Lily there and need not introduce himself in the playground (it is possible, of course, that their town has more than one school and they went to different ones). He seems to be totally into his wizarding roots that he dislikes anything Muggle. His mother could've taught him the basics (along with his quite extensive knowledge of magic, etc.). On the other hand, he seems to be very neglected so I'm not very convinced that his mother or father spent a lot of time with him (besides Tobias not liking anything much as he put it)....

I'm very interested to hear your take on this.
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  • (Anonymous)
    7/6/08 08:25 pm (UTC)
    I tend to think that we were shown Tonks' depressed magic as a hint that Eileen's magic was also 'toned down' by depression. By the time Sev meets Lily, Eileen has certainly had lived among muggles long enough to know how they dress. It isn't like the Weasleys, who actually live out in the country, outside of 'town'. And even if Eileen didn't know appropriate muggle clothing Tobias certainly did.

    I wish it weren't so, but I see Sev's clothes as indication that he was practically invisible to his parents. His father certainly did not care by that time. I cannot imagine ANY man in the '70s allowing his SON to wear a women's blouse if he cared for him at all. Even just as a matter of male pride, there should have been a big argument over that blouse.

    In other words, by the time he met Lily, I think Eileen was too depressed to do magic - basically barely even noticing she had a child. And Tobias was so angry by then that he was mostly just 'not home' enough to notice. -- Hwyla

    • [info]shyfoxling
      7/6/08 08:57 pm (UTC)
      I cannot imagine ANY man in the '70s allowing his SON to wear a women's blouse if he cared for him at all. Even just as a matter of male pride, there should have been a big argument over that blouse.

      It's "an odd smock-like shirt", not a blouse. Petunia says that as a way to tease him ("what's that, your mum's blouse?") but I don't think that's what it is really.

      I've seen it suggested before that the oversize jacket and the blousy shirt might also have been traceable to Severus "playing wizard", i.e., dressing in clothing the most like robes as he had access to.
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