[antipotoad]

If you start poking, you find those stories have more holes than a fishing net. Best to suspend disbelief.

That said, I like your suggestions. There’s altogether too little introspection on what the point of schooling should be. To my mind, better that schools impart the metacognitive skills to be a better learner, a better thinker, a more stable person, than to impart specific knowledge.

[krisoft]

> If you start poking, you find those stories have more holes than a fishing net

Not my intention at all. I'm using the story as a jumping off point to reflect on our reality.

One sad, unloved wizarding student growing up to be an unstable adult is a personal tragedy. When that young adult decides that his problems are the existence of certain others and drums up supporters and starts killing people on a massive scale. That is a societal tragedy now.

Now obviously we don't have wizard lords in our existence. On the other hand we have unstable grown up former victims of Eton. And some might interpret the course of recent British political tragedies as an outward manifestation of their games. Providing a parallel to the story.

No poking holes at all.

[qikInNdOutReply]

Now, comes the point of reflection. Imagine, for a moment a whole class of politicians, having grown acustomed to bullying out of sight. Running a global trading empire. What do you think they will do relentlessly to there neighbours and upstart competition. Now imagine how this competition might "over" react, when cut off from vital supplies again and again, when driven into endless proxy wars and similar things, just to keep them "down and fighting".

This is why there was the german prejudice against the "perfid albion", because well the people who run that empire were deeply twisted and evil. The admiration for similar evil, ala hitler was only natural.