[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts Textbooks

[Susanna Luhtanen]

No: HPFGUIDX 28840



Susanna Luhtanen
s_luhtanen at hotmail.com



>1. If you were writing a wizarding textbook, what would yours be called, 
>and
>what would your pen name be?  (You can write several; heck, Lockhart did.)

Wandless Magic by Miraculous Wonder

>2. Do you suppose the Hogwarts textbooks are like ours nowadays, with 
>chapter
>units and comprehension questions, and an annotated teachers' edition?  Or
>are they different?

They are, of course, Magical. Monster book of Monsters, Invisible Book of 
Invisibility - and the contents... A bit different, I think.

>3. How do you think the choosing process works at Hogwarts?  Obviously,
>Lockhart was able to demand that his students buy all his books, but surely
>other professors, such as Snape and Sprout, would have to coordinate their
>choices?  Does Dumbledore have a say in it?

Seems like the teacher gets the main say - but Dumbledore might get a veto. 
(with a risk of not having a teacher).

>4. Wizards seem to write their books based on field experience.  Are there
>fields in which one doesn't need experience to compile a textbook?

History... Law...

But um - some books I'd like to see in Diagon Alley:

My life as a werewolf by Remus Lupin
How to make wands by Ollivander (though I doubt he'll ever write that)
Order of the Phoenix by Albus Dumbledore (About caring of the Phoenix)
My Lifestory by Sirius Black

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