A Hogwarts education, was "Mad-Eye Moody" - Character Sketch (long)

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 6194

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, atelecky at m... wrote:

> Incidentally, I haven't ever seen any evidence of any education in 
> music or art at Hogwarts--nothing like a band or an orchestra. 
> Dumbledore apparently likes chamber music; you would think he would 
> encourage music learning at his own school [snip] 
> Not much of a thread, but can anyone think of some other things 
> Hogwarts might be lacking in? Right now its a bit of a one-
dimensional 
> school--there's no philosophy or literature-- I suppose magic takes 
> the place of science classes, and Hermione is taking Arithmancy, so 
I 
> guess there's some version of math in the magical world? 

JKR has said that some of the traditional muggle subjects are studied 
in the elective Muggles Studies classes, and the students certainly 
do a lot of writing in all their classes.  But it is true that the 
way Hogwarts is structured that the students do seem to be missing 
out on a lot of subjects that would be useful in both the magical and 
muggle worlds.  In particular, I have wondered about the lack of 
music, and also sports other than the official House quidditch 
teams.  And shouldnt students like Dean Thomas, who are good at 
drawing, get some opportunity to get more artistic training?  Oh 
well, we cant expect JKR to think of everything!

--Joywitch