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One more thought for the morning. My family is all working class, but I’m middle class because of the educational aspirations instilled in my parents by their parents. When I talk about ‘the Hogwarts experience’, I know what I’m talking about: I got sent to private school.
I have a GCSE in Latin and some barely resolved dissociative trauma to show for it. When I say ‘I’m a Ravenclaw’, I mean I was literally out in one of four houses, the one whose colour was blue, whose animal was a bird (swift), and whose reputation was for being swatty.
When I talk about the ideological force exerted by Oxbridge on our national character, a sort of educational Mythos in relation to which everything else is defined, either through affinity or in opposition, ‘the Hogwarts experience’ is the easiest way to encapsulate it.
