[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts Textbooks

Tue Oct 30 04:50:24 UTC 2001

No: HPFGUIDX 28430

 Okay here are my answers.
Danette
  linman6868 at aol.com wrote: 
Questions:

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.)

Historical Happenings and Events by Diggen Bones

Mathemagics by Lotta Numbers 

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?

Considering that they allowed Lockhart's books I would say that they are different more like very large reference books that are drier than the Sahara, mainly because you don't ever hear any of the teachers assigning End of Chapter Questions homework or hear of any of the students having to do an End of Chapter essay.

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?

Usually the textbooks are choosen (at least in my experience) by the School Board there fore what I think happens is the teachers put in thier choices for books for thier class and the School Board gets together and says "Okay this book is good but I think that we should use this book instead of that one for this class."

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?

There must be or Lockhart would have never been a bestseller :-P Actually I have to agree with some of the people who have posted before me. I can very easily see the lower level and primers being written by someone with no experience in the field at all.

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