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<b>Because even magic school is still just school.</b>

Because even magic school is still just school.

What Would Be Your Best Subject At Hogwarts?

What subject was your best before your letter arrived?

Pick a color:

What frustrates you most?

What do you do every Saturday?

Favorite Spell

Who would you choose to study with?

Favorite spot at Hogwarts?

Choose a Weasley:

What's your first stop?

The study of the daily lives of muggles and how they cope with electricity and not magic. This class aims specifically to acquaint wizards and witches who do not have direct contact with muggles with the way they live. One known essay topic was, "Why Muggles Need Electricity."

Muggle Studies

Students learn the correct way to brew potions following specific recipes and using various magical ingredients. Long time Potions Master at Hogwarts, Severus Snape, tells his first years that he can teach them to "bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death." Turn to page 394!

Potions

Arithmancy is magical discipline that studies the magical properties of numbers. It studies how to predict the future using numbers, often incorporating numerology.Those who practiced arithmancy were called arithmancers. And you thought Number Theory was hard!

Arithmancy

Ancient Runes is a mostly theoretical subject that studies the Ancient Runic scripts of magic. Runes are the letters (symbols representing various sound values) of a runic alphabet. For example, the known rune, "ehwaz," means "partnership" and corresponds to the Latin "e."

Study of Ancient Runes

Defense Against the Dark Arts (sometimes written as DADA) teaches students how to magically defend themselves against dark creatures, dark arts, and other dark charms. Offensive magic is also taught in this class, such as, how to duel. Riddikulus!

Defense Against the Dark Arts

Herbology is the study of magical and mundane plants and fungi. Students learn to care for and utilize plants, and learn about their magical properties and what they are used for. Many plants provide ingredients for potions and medicine while others have magical effects of their own.

Herbology

Not so surprisingly, Charms specializes in the teaching of charms. Students are taught specific wand movements and proper pronunciation. Often students partner up in class to experiment on one another. Choose wisely!

Charms

Transfiguration teaches the art of changing the form and appearance of an object. There are limits to Transfiguration, which are governed by Gump's Law of Elemental Transfiguration. Transfiguration is regarded as "very hard work," and is "more scientific," than any other subject. One has to get it exactly right for the transfiguration to be successful.

Transfiguration

Care of Magical Creatures teaches students about a wide range of — well — magical creatures, from flobberworms to fire crabs, and even unicorns and thestrals. Students are taught about the feeding, maintaining, breeding, and proper treatment of these various creatures.

Care of Magical Creatures

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