Magic class

[Kenneth M. Kuller <ken.kuller@veritas.com>]

My thoughts:  It all depends on which mailing list are you on - the 
Wizard list or the Muggle list.

If you are on the Wizard mailing list, it's great to see wizards 
sharing their hobbies with other wizards.

If you are on the Muggle mailing list, quite it's possible that they 
ran simply short of course catalogs and innocently grabbed a few from 
that "other" box.  Are there any night classes in ancient runes, 
flight, numerology, arithmancy, divination, potions, charms, 
transfiguration or defense against the dark arts?  If you do sign up 
for any of these magic courses, mark your form "Squib" in order to 
avoid future complications.

- Ken


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dradamsapple 
<dradamsapple at y...>" <dradamsapple at y...> wrote:
> Just thougt I'd share . . .
> 
> We got our Spring 'Brown Learning Community' catalogue today (from 
> Brown Universtiy) and they are offering a class called "The Problem 
> of Magic in the Modern World".  The description includes, 
> 
> " . . .magic remains one of the least well-understood of our 
ancient 
> practices.  What, then, is magic?  Is is just a strange mixture of 
> decepton, superstition and primitive religion, or is there more to 
it 
> than that?  Should magic take its place among the alternative 
> spiritual disciplines, like meditation, yoga or mysticism?  Does 
any 
> magic really work?  If it does, can we explain how in rational or 
> scientific  terms?  Is magic inherently good, evil, or 
> neither?  . . ."
> 
> The class will look at the theory and practice of magic through the 
> ages.
> 
> Interesting questions indeed. 
> 
> Any thoungts? ;-)
> 
> Anna . . . (who wishes she  could do a little magic to get the kids 
> to bed . . . )