Muggle Studies, was: New Canon- Replies to EVERYONE

[alshainofthenorth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Erin" <erinellii at y...> wrote:

<Snipping a lot of very good questions>
> 
> Mariana:
> - How come Arthur Weasley got a job in a high rank in the muggle
> department (even being a muggle-lover) if he clearly is not 
familiar 
> with muggles and their lives? He doesn't even know how to handle 
> money....
> Didn't he have muggle studies at school?
> 
> Erin:
> I like this one, but with your permission, I'd like to change it a 
> bit, to something about how come Arthur hasn't learned more about 
> Muggles after working in a muggle department for so long.  OoP 
(when 
> Harry, Ron, and Hermione were looking at careers) explained that 
> wizards working with muggles weren't required to have very many 
OWLS 
> or know very much about them at all.

<Alshain snips even more very good questions>
Pardon me for jumping in with a suggestion, but since Dumbledore 
appears to have the authority to have Hogwarts stop offering studies 
in Divination, I've considered the possibility that he was the one to 
introduce Muggle Studies at Hogwarts when he became Headmaster. Thus, 
the subject could've been on the curriculum since about the late 
sixties (before the MWPP generation started school but after Lupin 
was bitten by a werewolf).

Alshain, wondering if the change was caused by the spirit of '68