Real Life Hogwarts!

[Fleur]

Ok, imagine...

what if somebody could make a REAL LIFE HOGWARTS? Me and Carrie were thinking about this, and you could make it really similar.

For example, GCSE courses in Astromony and Potion making (an advanced form of chemistry) would be perfectly acceptable. You could take divination, because there are teachers for it, and Care of, erm, Exotic creatures like Komodo dragons and giant squid. You could easily have a history of magic course.

Then there could be gravity versions of quidditch, and of course, the houses, maybe decided by a personality quiz or task of some kind.

It's have to be in an old scottish castle, of corse, with a lake, and a dark forest... Can you imagine it?

There would have to be core stuff like Maths, English, Science and things to satisfy the government, but why not? It'd be sooo great!

You'll see... In ten years time, there wil be an article on newsround, proclaiming the first ever school based entirely on a set of books. Maybe Joanne will be our headmistress!

wow.

What so you think?

[Moxie]

Well, it sure isn't in a Scottish castle, but one of the bookstores around here runs a monthly HP fan group that looks a little like this - the bookstore gets 'visiting lecturers' (teachers and university students dressed up) to give presentations on topics like Astronomy, Herbology (no screaming mandrake roots, plain ol' available-to-Muggles medicinal herbs), Potions (chemistry, as Fleur notes), History of Magic... I don't know if the attendees are sorted into houses though.

[Fleur]

Wow! That is super cool. (note to self : do not say super cool)

So unfair! I wish somewhere did something like that around here. sounds like so much fun! Probaly be booked up in an instant, though.

[Fleurdelacour]

That's really cool Moxie :)

However, it would never beat the real thing! Scottish castles aren't that expensive you know Dom, my mum was telling me you could buy a castle set in 100 acres, that had its own lake and cottages for servants for £400,000! This was in the Sunday Times ages ago aparantly! Darn, if only we had £400,000....

Well we're nearly sixteen :)...

[Miriam]

Fleur, I noticed your sig- there's a rule now that you can't have a title till you've been on the boards 100 days (most silly) and it froze a lot of us with the same title we had when the rule was set. So just because I had issues with Gil-galad for like a day, I'm now not interested in Noldor till after TTT. Blah. They explained it in the 'test' thread.

It may be very hard to make a school like this and satisfy picky governments and parents, but a summer camp would certaintly be cool- in a castle! With Astronomy in the tallest tower at midnight!

Actually my college is quite like Hogwarts in some senses. It's got towers, and staircases that are hard to find, even if they don't actually move, and the fourth floor is forbidden and haunted. There's even a pizza shop that reminds me a bit of the Leaky Cauldron, and a Native American store where you can buy herbs. But I have Art class and Math rather than divination etc. (I do know a druid who lives on the first floor and reads Tarot, and I work as a student librarian with a former witch :))

[Melkor]

Originally posted by Fleur
Ok, imagine...

what if somebody could make a REAL LIFE HOGWARTS


What so you think?

I think that it's a great idea. I've had taught some of these things in RL and have often wondered about doing it on a grand college type scale. :D

Where are those lottery winnings when ya need them ;)

[BloodFire's Mum]

First you have to buy a ticket Melkor!
;)

[Fleur]

Yes, you can be a proffesor Melkor! A summer Camp is also a good idea!

I guess this just inspires me because every kid I know would just love to go somewhere like this.

Your college sounds cool, Miriam. Gee I can't WAIT to get out of school!

[Rivenlas]

That would be sweet. I'd definitely want to work there, since I can't attend. Hey, and can you imagine what parents would spend to send their kids to a ritzy Harry Potter school?

[Fleur]

Well I reckon I would.. And a lot of my friends, too ;)

lol. But I got thinking and what would these kids actually come there to BE? lol. If you get what a mean... but you'd be doing core stuff, I spose... It would have to be just up to year 11.

What would you teach, Rivanlas? :)

[Rivenlas]

Creative Writing...Composition...English based courses...Hey, maybe we could have a fantasy writing course? That'd be me, right there.

[Fleur]

Wow I'd defitntily sign up for it!

[Rivenlas]

What would you teach? If you weren't a student?