What song (if any) is traditionally played at graduations? (For example, in the US, it's Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D", aka "Land of Hope and Glory".) Or do they play the school song, or does it vary wildly from school to school.
If it matters, it's for the equivalent of secondary school (specifically, Hogwarts
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The results still come out at the same time as they used to so I don't think that will have changed hugely.
So, no song because no graduation to play it at....
On the other hand, if it's Hogwarts, the wizarding world does tend to do things a bit differently to the muggles, so there may be scope to have some sort of graduation ceremony if you really need it for the plot.
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You could introduce some sort of leaving ceremony at Hogwarts, if you wanted, but suggest you avoid US style graduation ceremonies as they're not used in the UK.
Oh, and there isn't necessarily a school song, either. No school I attended had one, for example but there may be British schools that do, I suppose.
Incidentally, there are graduation ceremonies from UK universities but we didn't play music at mine, at least, and mine is one of the Russell Group, and therefore more traditional, universities.
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I went to Cambridge and we had a graduation ceremony at the Senate House where we had to kneel and swear fealty to the Vice Chancellor as representative of the university after being "presented" to him in Latin in groups by individual college, but no music whatsoever.
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I can't remember if my university graduation ceremony had any music at all - if it did, it would have been some kind of classical music, but it wasn't specific to the university or something every university did. My university came into being in the 1960s so it's not even half as traditional/full of rituals as Cambridge!
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Since we don't see Harry's seventh-year, you could make up a tradition, if you like- a seventh-years-only breakfast before they head out, or similar.
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In some of the more prestigious schools of England, however, there is sometimes a prizegiving ceremony whereby awards named after famous alumni are presented; for example, when I finished my A Levels after 7 years of schooling, I received the Rosemary Currie award for Chemistry (as I achieved the highest Chemistry grade in my year). If you were wanting some sort of ceremony for the 7th Years, a prizegiving along these lines might be an idea.
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