Fantastic Beasts and Care of Magical Creatures

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 30599

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Heather Glude <res0icpa at v...> wrote:

> Why do you suppose Harry has to buy Fantastic Beasts two years 
> before he takes it? I found one posts that presented the idea that
> books are used for more than one class. Could Fantastic Beasts be 
> for Potions - the animal version of One Thousand Magical Herbs and 
> Fungi? Perhaps one of the other classes?

I think FB was for Defense Against Dark Arts. Remember in the thrid 
year, with Lupin, they cover Boggarst and Hinkypunks and all those 
creatures who are in FB ending with werewolves -- and FB is in 
alphabetical order. Remember that they had pretty lousy DADA 
teachers for Harry's first two years: maybe what Lupin gave them in 
thrid year, dangerous but not necessarily evil magical creatures, was 
supposed to be the first year curriculum. Maybe Snape wasn't just 
being nasty when he said that he would have expected a first year 
student to be able to deal with Boggarts.