[dsc]

"can't say that I agree with you there. Hogwarts (the Wizardry school the characters attend) is a very intense seven-year school."

But they have to have magical powers just to get in to the school. Muggles aren't admitted. And therein lies the parallel to Karate Kid.

[yuleeyahoo]

"But they have to have magical powers just to get in to the school. Muggles aren't admitted. And therein lies the parallel to Karate Kid."

So students who get admitted to MIT or Cal Poly-Tech are just like the Karate Kid because they went to schools where you actually have to be smart?

[steve-b]

But they have to have magical powers just to get in to the school.

Yes, just as you have to have to be tall and athletic to get a basketball scholarship in the real world. I don't see how one is more unjust than the other.