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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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  • [info]veradee.livejournal.com
    7/8/08 10:20 am (UTC)
    However, the big divide wouldn't have been household income but *religion* - Catholic kids went to Catholic primaries. Protestants, non-believers and (outside big cities) Jewish kids went to ordinary local schools. So, the most pertinent question is - what were Eileen Prince's and Tobias Snape's religions, if any?

    I'm astonished to hear that because I've come across many posts by British HP fans who explained that Britain is rather secular, i.e. people might belong to a church but don't really act upon it.

    Was it still different in the 1960s? Or do people attend confessional schools despite the fact that they ignore their religion at all other times?

    • [info]persevero
      7/8/08 10:51 am (UTC)
      Oh, I agree that we are a much more secular society than the US - fewer than 10% of people go to church or whatever. I don't believe that church-going was much more prevalent when I was a child, either. I only noticed Catholics being educated separately, and presumably I would only have become aware that they were Catholics because they went to different schools - I'm not even sure that this indicated that their parents were church-goers - it just seemed to be customary. I don't suppose I would have known if any of the kids who did go to my school were actually Catholics - I don't think we were denominationally aware, if there is such a term!

      The local Catholic secondary school was on the other side of the field behind our garden, and I can remember sitting on the top of their fence and wondering what they were taught that was different from the County High School for Girls - all I knew (from my Latin teacher) is that they wrote AMDG (Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam?) at the top of their exam papers.
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