[HPforGrownups] Re: Astronomy + ideas for classes

[Kassie Ostrander]

No: HPFGUIDX 8057



>At 02:21 PM 12/28/00 +0000, Flying Ford Anglia wrote:
> >*Herbology = Botany/Gardening
> >*Care of Magical Creatures = Zoology/Vetinary Science
> >*Arithmancy = Arithmetic/Mathematics
> >*Potions = Chemistry/Cookery/Pharmacology
> >[etc.]...
>> >... a few topics that don't seem to
> >be covered much at all: Terrestrial Geography (it's no wonder that
> >no one knows where anything is located), Modern Languages, English
> >Lit, Art, Music and Sex Education spring to mind.
>
>A quick OT question: What is Sex Ed. like in the UK?  Over here
>in the States you need a note from your parents to take it, and at that
>they only discuss STD.  (The rest they assume you learn for yourself
>behind the bike sheds.)

Actually, i think it goes by school here in the states.  The first high 
school that i went to only discussed the "scientific" aspect of it where as 
the other one focuses on the methods of birth control and how to prevent an 
STD...  It was never mentioned once in elementary school, apart from the 
whole, name that diagram test.



>To this I would add:
>
>-- Magical Maladies and Medicine (Where did Madam Pomfrey learn??)
>
>-- Magical Music (Maybe Dumbledore is trying to start this one at 
>Hogwarts.)
>
>-- Magical Machinery:  There's plenty of these in fantasy -- such as
>       Tik-Tok the clockwork man in the Oz Books and the Sultan's
>       mechanical flying horse in the movie _The Thief of Bagdad_ --
>       so it seems there should be a class.  And things like the
>       Weasley's clock could be covered.
>
>-- Magical Home Economics: How to get rid of garden gnomes,
>       make sauce come out of your wand, etc.  (Mrs. Weasley could
>       teach this.)
>
>-- Fundamental Magical Physics: How Magic works on the most
>        fundamental level... This would be the Magical equivalent
>        of Quantum Physics.

What about speech and PE... It doesn't seem like flying is all that 
strenuos...

which brings up another point, if Harry is supposed to be flying around on 
the Quidditch field then how does he get covered with mud?

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