Rhetorical, naturally. Believe it or not, I do have an imagination.

[Please don't torment her with all the ways life can be not normal. 'Sharon' thought she had enough of that in her own career, if you can call it that, but others here keep raising the bar.]

Plenty of adults go back to school. Although I must admit, it does not sound like this academy would fall under higher education.

So you were forced to attend through magic, in order to learn...? [Don't you say it. She can see where this is going, and she doesn't like it.]

[...Or do, because that's more fun.]