Post by Molly Lorna Weasley on Mar 27, 2009 15:37:20 GMT 9.5
the plot
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'Back in my day, it was the Dorbert's School for Incompetent, Ungifted and Backwards Wizards... but they weren't as kind to us back then.' -- Madge Kennerly, squib, 71.
Originally founded as a place to 'shove' the unsightly embarassment of a squib in te family, the Framlingham Institute of Squib Learning has come a long way. Teaching those who aren't good enough for Hogwarts is a full time job. Their students do not belong in one world or the other, and must be prepared for both. The Institute offers non-practical subjects such as History of Magic, combined with the muggle subjects needed to ensure the individual can survive the wizarding world without the use of magic.
'It doesn't matter what we do. We're strange in either world.' -- Eric MacGibbon, squib student, 16.
Although the school suffers under the prestige of Hogwarts, lately people have been paying attention. More forward thinking members of the wizarding community are electing to send their 'normal' children to Framlingham on exchange visits, to educate them about the different types of people in the wizarding world. Among some families, it has become fashionable to marry into muggle blood, and promote tolerance of all blood types.
'It is not acceptable. They ought to accept their lot. They were not born with magic; they are not a part of our world.' -- Vincent 'Vicious' Greene, Deputy Minister for Magic, 47.
Of course, not everyone shares this opinion. The last of the purebloods are still resistant, still determined to eliminate all traces of 'mudblood' from the gene pool. When a robbery-gone-wrong ends in the rowdy Minister for Magic, Andrew McElhaney being shot four times in muggle London, the wizarding world decides it must act. Rumours spin wildly about muggle attacks, breaks in the statute of secrecy and the suspicion that the squib folk are behind it.
'Well I, for one, think it's a lark! An absolute lark! Lark, lar.. lar! Lark, lark lark, laaa... what was I saying?' -- Reginald the Batty of Framlingham, ghost, age undetermined.
The Ministry is threatening to shut down Framlingham. Already there's twenty-four hour watch on the place, by trained aurors. As if the kids could defend themselves! The staff are furious, but when the Ministry already suspects you, anger is not going to get you very far.
‘We need to accept these people. They were born into our world, and therefore have the right to live in it. That is why, after the school shuts down, they will be moving into Hogwarts.’ -- Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, age undetermined.
So what happens when squibs enter Hogwarts? How will the students react? Will they be friends or foes?
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'Back in my day, it was the Dorbert's School for Incompetent, Ungifted and Backwards Wizards... but they weren't as kind to us back then.' -- Madge Kennerly, squib, 71.
Originally founded as a place to 'shove' the unsightly embarassment of a squib in te family, the Framlingham Institute of Squib Learning has come a long way. Teaching those who aren't good enough for Hogwarts is a full time job. Their students do not belong in one world or the other, and must be prepared for both. The Institute offers non-practical subjects such as History of Magic, combined with the muggle subjects needed to ensure the individual can survive the wizarding world without the use of magic.
'It doesn't matter what we do. We're strange in either world.' -- Eric MacGibbon, squib student, 16.
Although the school suffers under the prestige of Hogwarts, lately people have been paying attention. More forward thinking members of the wizarding community are electing to send their 'normal' children to Framlingham on exchange visits, to educate them about the different types of people in the wizarding world. Among some families, it has become fashionable to marry into muggle blood, and promote tolerance of all blood types.
'It is not acceptable. They ought to accept their lot. They were not born with magic; they are not a part of our world.' -- Vincent 'Vicious' Greene, Deputy Minister for Magic, 47.
Of course, not everyone shares this opinion. The last of the purebloods are still resistant, still determined to eliminate all traces of 'mudblood' from the gene pool. When a robbery-gone-wrong ends in the rowdy Minister for Magic, Andrew McElhaney being shot four times in muggle London, the wizarding world decides it must act. Rumours spin wildly about muggle attacks, breaks in the statute of secrecy and the suspicion that the squib folk are behind it.
'Well I, for one, think it's a lark! An absolute lark! Lark, lar.. lar! Lark, lark lark, laaa... what was I saying?' -- Reginald the Batty of Framlingham, ghost, age undetermined.
The Ministry is threatening to shut down Framlingham. Already there's twenty-four hour watch on the place, by trained aurors. As if the kids could defend themselves! The staff are furious, but when the Ministry already suspects you, anger is not going to get you very far.
‘We need to accept these people. They were born into our world, and therefore have the right to live in it. That is why, after the school shuts down, they will be moving into Hogwarts.’ -- Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, age undetermined.
So what happens when squibs enter Hogwarts? How will the students react? Will they be friends or foes?