Dad commented to me recently that he finds it odd that Hogwarts doesn't just have school year-round, or if not school exactly, at least some sort of structured activity that will keep young witches and wizards corralled in one place so that there will be less chance of them drawing attention to themselves by breaking the rules about unauthorized underage magic. He has a point, though for the sake of the books having the summers as a separate and largely skipped-over entity seems to make the most structural sense. I wonder what Hogwarts professors do during the summers? I'm sure it varies, but it's hard to picture some of them outside the confines of that castle.
Dad also couldn't understand why Harry was talking about going back to the Dursleys for the summer in the second book, since between the cake fiasco and the flying car, there was no way they'd take him back. As summer approached in each of the books, I kept finding myself wishing he could just go home with Ron. He does spend quite a bit of time at the Burrow, and it would be so much more pleasant if he could skip the Dursleys altogether. But now we understand why he can't do that...
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Summer always seems very short to me in these books! They seem to stay in school most of June anyway. My impression is that Harry is mostly at Dursley's in July, then heads to the Burrow for August and they all go to King's Cross for Sept. 1. I used to think it was odd they never had to deal with Labor Day at the beginning of the school year, but (duh) that's only here in the U.S.!
That's true, it is a rather short summer. I have cousins in New York who usually go to the end of June, but then I think they start later in September too...
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