Liraeyn t1_iydsm6q wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:32 PM

I think they have education before Hogwarts. Maybe homeschool, maybe muggle school, maybe intro magic schools.

the_original_Retro t1_iydwgmp wrote on November 30, 2022 at 5:57 PM

So Harry was 11 in the first book and film, and the book was set in the year 1991.

He would have received zero homeschooling from his horrid family, they just wanted the money that came from looking after him and nothing else to do with him.

So looking at British education systems in the 1980's, he would have gone to Stage 1 "muggle" school (at age 7), and then to Hogwarts for Stage 2 (at age 11).

The foster parents would have wanted him out of the house.