Children Teaching Children

[Juliet Hughes]

Children Teaching Children
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; Top Education or Amateur Breeding Ground?

Even since it was established by the four greatest wizards and witches of their times, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has gone unprecedented in the wizarding world for its top-notch education. At one point in time it was even commanded by Albus Dumbledore himself, one of the greatest Wizards ever known. And now… the Founders must be rolling in their graves.

The Demographics at Hogwarts School stand as such; two eighteen year olds, one twenty-one and twenty-two year olds, the bulk of the staff ranging between the years thirty and thirty-five, and two stranglers at thirty-eight and thirty-nine. Not a single one of the staff members’ breeches the age of forty. So, one must ask, are we sending of our innocent children to be taught by children?

While it is not uncommon for professors in their thirties to speckle to Hogwarts Staff among greater and older minds, it is indeed absurd to have eighteen year olds on the rosters. Our children are at Hogwarts for nine months out the year, looking to these individuals as role models and for guidance. Can they really obtain that from individuals that are, in some cases, only a year older than them? Hardly.

The standards have dropped appallingly low. But now, we must ask ourselves, has the Administration simply lost its mind, or perhaps, are these young and impressionable youths – the bottom of the barrel – the best that Hogwarts can do?

The Deva related events from this past January has not yet faded from the minds of wizards and witches nation wide. Perhaps, the faith in the school in the general had declined so rapidly that Hogwarts can not hang onto the ignorant.

Only time can tell how the once most famous school in the Wizarding World will hold up in these tides of change.

Juliet Hughes
Daily Prophet Reporter