>>713356476
in the movies the school stuff was offscreen or done when needed
the games are pretty much like that most of the time
>oooh its time for you to learn a new spell!
then you do some tasks and go back to class for a series of cutscenes for said spell

but yeah, you will be outside of the castle for a large portion of the game running around the world doing minipuzzles, killing enemies and gathering collectables and so on