#Only your church Toby would require paperwork

[wellpresseddaisy]

Because @bravestslytherin just shared @sneverussape 's post on religion in HP and mybrallln is a bag of inebriated weasels on a good day:

Catholic students attending Hogwarts have to get a dispensation from Rome to go. Not because the Church has an issue with magic, but because they won't be able to fulfill their weekly obligation to attend Mass.

While Hogwarts technically has a non-denominational chapel, it's currently being used as an excellent place to store firewood. No one has asked to have a service in there for generations, nor do they still have a chaplain. The last chaplain at Hogwarts served at some point in the early 18th century, but no one really liked him and students weren't complaining that chapel was no longer compulsory.

Rome put her foot down at that point (once they found out...and they always find out) and began requiring a dispensation to attend, necessitating Paperwork.

(There isn't much the Church loves (beside the BVM) more than paperwork and bureaucracy.)

It's mostly a formality. Usually this would be handled at the parish level (pastors have the power to give a dispensation for the weekly obligation) but it's enough students and there may still be some Feelings about the Reformation.

Yes, there is a form.