Harry, Hermione and other wizards with one or more muggle parents learned to read, write, do maths and more at elementary school. Do children from wizard families just learn this at home? And are there tests they have to pass?
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Most of the wand-carriers that come from a non-Muggle family seem fairly uneducated when it comes to interacting with Muggles.  This implies that they don't go to any type of Muggle school before entering into their education at Hogwarts (or whichever Wizarding school they go to), or else they would at least understand some Muggle culture.  What do children from magical families do before going to Hogwarts if they don't go to a traditional school?  Is there any evidence that they're homeschooled?
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To get to Hogwarts, the students had to:   Travel many hours by regular (seemingly non-magical, and fairly slow) train Then get into magical conveyances in Hogsmeade.   The latter makes sense - you can't apparate in Hogwarts.  But WHY oh WHY did they need a regular train?  Why not:   A magic school bus (like Knight one) to Hogsmeade A magic flying dis-illusioned train A bunch of portkeys (heck, they used them to transport the wizards to Quidditch cup in 1994, and IIRC there were a LOT more attendees than students at Hogwarts)! And, at worst, for a couple of Muggle-born students who for some reason can't get to any of the above, arrange something much smaller than a train.
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In the Harry Potter universe, if you're dating a Muggle, how long do you have to wait before the Ministry of Magic will let you disclose you're a witch or wizard without consequence?  Follow up, related questions   Would they have to get their memory wiped if you broke up? How would that work if there were kids involved?  Do the kids have to keep magic a secret from the oblivious parent or are they just sworn to secrecy?    ...It's hard to believe that no Muggle has ever tried to gain custody by telling the court his ex-wife is a witch.
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Wizarding families are all magical, spells and charms being performed by older siblings and parents on a regular basis. Families of Muggle-borns are just Muggle normality, up until the Muggle-born’s 11th birthday. Then we have those who are born to a wizard and a Muggle (those who actually LIVE with them (like Lockhart and Umbridge). Would the Wizarding parent perform spells and charms around the house, for example?
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There were a lot of family connections between everyone and everyone in HP... Harry and Ignotus, Voldemort and Slytherin, the Blacks and everyone else (Tonks, Weasleys, etc...)  Was there any info (canon or JKR) that Dumbledore was related to anyone? He lived in Godric's Hollow, but that is not necessarily a basis for any leaps of logic.
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How do owls in Potterverse know how to deliver letters? Is there some sort of training they go through before being out in the field? Can any owl be used, or are there only specific breeds that are more suited for the task?
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Obviously, in the Harry Potter universe, some Muggles know all about wizards.  The Dursleys, for example, and the British government, as well as Hermione's family.  But at the same time, the Wizarding World has a vested interest in keeping themselves hidden, often going to extreme lengths to preserve the Muggles' ignorance about what's really going on.  Some things (like ) seem to take care of themselves, but word-of-mouth still seems like it would be an issue.  Are there any details provided about how they navigated this issue?  Did Hermione ever mention (before the events of the final book where she straight-up mind-wiped them) an inability to tell her parents about anything she was doing?  Was there a legal reason why the Dursleys could know about Hogwarts but Marge Dursley couldn't (aside from the Dursley's self-imposed shame)?  Did we ever hear about family members' memories being altered after graduation, or any loose-lipped gossips needing to be told to hush up?
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Or is it just 'further education' i.e. Hogwarts, Durmstrung, Beaux-batons? Are there wizarding universities?
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What training do doctors/Healers receive above their school education?   A fresh Hogwarts graduate does not seem to have all the skills required to be a Healer, so s/he would need to be learning those skills somehow/someplace. So how/where do they get those skills?  Also, there is one instance of a doctor being praised for inventing a healing spell. Is there any research system, like funding, trials etc or any other source of innovation?
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In the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, just before the Sorting ceremony, all the first years were quite terrified. No one had any idea what was going to follow (even Ron who came from a wizarding family). Why is this?  The ceremony itself is not a secret since most of the wizards in England went through it. Even if there is an unofficial rule not to talk about it, at least some of the kids would probably have heard about it and spread the news.
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Every winter, Hogwarts students return home and celebrate Christmas with their families. However, given their extensive use of magic, it does not seem likely they'd understand Christianity the way muggles would.  How and why do wizards observe Christmas?
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Related to this question:  and   TL;DR - 1a) Do we know of any other students that were actually expelled?  TL;DR - 1b) What constitutes a complete education? Do all children have to pass OWLS and NEWTS?  The only example I can remember is: Hagrid. He was fully expelled, wand broken and everything.  It is also my recollection that the wand is broken because without a completed education the wizard will end up being a danger to the public by not performing spells properly.  However we see the following:   Fred and George left the school voluntarily so there was no official to confiscate and break their wands. They end up opening their joke shop.   Same goes with Harry and Ron so they can pursue the Horcruxes. They end up working as Aurors directly after the war. Hermione leaves but goes back and completes her education.    This leaves the following questions:   Since Fred and George did not finish, why did the Ministry not show up at the shop to confiscate and break their wands?  Same with Harry and Ron. Why when they went to work for the Ministry was nothing said or done?   Harry and Ron are the HEROS so I am guessing that no one would want to enforce the law in their cases. Kingsley actually recruited them to head up the new Auror department.   Fred and George, however, leave before the end of the war in a time where the Ministry is corrupt. So it would stand to reason that they would be targets.  We also know that many children are home-schooled throughout the world. So there must be some standard that the Ministry would deem acceptable to not go break the wands of all the wizards that are home-schooled.   It almost seems to that this is just a setup for Hagrid's character and role, plus a background threat to Harry whenever it convenient for the plot...     Edit to account for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:  We know that Newt Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts, but he definitely still has his wand!
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Do people read literature in Harry Potter? Fiction books are rarely mentioned in the series, and none of the characters seem to read novels. We understand that a majority of teenage students aren’t prone to pick up Chaucer just for the fun of it, but you would think a bookworm like Hermione would occasionally peruse Dickens, especially since other forms of entertainment, such as television and computers, aren’t common in the magical world.
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Are there other schools for witches and wizards in the rest of the world? In the books they only speak of 3 schools, but what about Asian or American people?  And even more, were they affected by the events happening in Europe?
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Was Harry Potter an innately powerful/skillful Wizard in any way, based on canon?  It seems that whenever Harry Potter performed some unusually potent bit of magic (potent as far as require raw power AND/OR skill), most of the time we find that it wasn’t innately Harry’s skill, but a combination of:   some extraneous magic forces/rules/powers circumstance great reaction time (which is obviously extraordinary from his Quidditch playing; and is likely a larger factor in his dueling than the strength of his magic) general smartness or (the part that Harry’s detractors, including Voldemort missed) Harry’s strength of character/personality   The only two counter-examples I can think of which show him as having extraordinary or at least obviously above average magical abilities are:   His skill at flying brooms - while a part of it is pure physical skill, at least part is magical. His (corporeal) Patronus charm   As far as examples of his unusual feats being due to reasons listed above:   Obviously, surviving Avada Kedavra as an infant - due to Lily’s sacrifice Parselmouth talent - proxied via Voldemort’s piece of soul. Ability to see the Sorcerer’s Stone in the Mirror of Erised - due to purity of his character, nothing magical. Obvious lack of talent at potion making throughout all of the books (sans cheating in HBP) His win over the Basilisk - due to Hermione’s research, character traits, and as a consequence of the last one, getting Fawkes and Gryffindor’s Sword’s help.  Just to be clear, before someone flames me - what he did was obviously super extraordinary, BUT IMHO he would have achieved the same result if he was turned into a Squib for the duration of Chamber of Secrets fight. TriWizard Tournament entry - wasn’t him, it was Barty Crouch TriWizard Tournament second challenge - a combination of character and outside help (someone told him about Gillyweed) TriWizard Tournament third challenge - Mostly, Barty Crouch’s cheating  Note that I’m omitting the first challenge, since that one was the aforementioned Broom flying skills. His survival in the cemetery after Voldemort’s return - again, a combination of superior strength of character and super powerful wandlore magic that had nothing to do with his skill as a Wizard. The whole “last Horcrux” thing when surviving the second Avada Kedavra from Voldemort His ownership of the Elder Wand in the very last duel with Voldemort.   So, to paraphrase my original question, was there any canon/JKR evidence that Harry was anything but a completely average/mediocre wizard in any way, shape, or form if you take into account only his own magical abilities and skills?
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As part of my digging into heritability of magic, I am trying to see if there's any difference between the chances of being a wizard with one Muggle parent if your mother vs. your father was a Muggle.  As far as I know, JKR didn't cover that explicitly, but we can at least make a guess based on statistics.  As such: Of all the half-Muggles mentioned by JKR (books, supplemental books, interviews, Pottermore) where we know who was a Muggle among parents, how many were Muggle fathers vs Muggle mothers?  To avoid creating an endless list of answers, if you can think of another example that wasn't tallied before, please edit it into an existing answer.  NOTE: this question uses "half-Muggles" instead of JKR's term "half-blood" because I only care about kids whose one parent was a Muggle; whereas in Potterverse, the "half-blood" term also applies to those whose second parent was Muggle-born magic user (such as Harry Potter).
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My main question is about the process of doing spells. If it is explained in the books, I am eager to know what consisted spells except words and waving the wand.    In the Harry Potter series, Hogwarts taught magic to wizards. Now except in Potion-making classes, all they learnt were some spells like "lumos", "stupefy" etc. Now we mostly see a dozen spells mainly used by Harry and teams in the whole series in which they wave their wand and say it, may be with a bit of concentration. Except Expecto Patronum, which including a lot of practice to get hold of your happiest memory, and the apparating process, which can be dangerous (actually it was never taught in school and Hermione just seem to know it somehow), none other spells seems to be tough and can be taught maximum in a week. Were there any technicalities to perform each spell, except waving wand and saying it?