[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts Textbooks

[Calypso8604 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 28435

In a message dated 10/29/01 10:10:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
linman6868 at aol.com writes:


> 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.)

My Pen Name would be Calypso, of course! I just love that name! Oh, it's too 
early to think of a clever title (almost 5 a.m., *why* did I have to wake 
this early?) but my book would most definitely be about Magical Creatures.

> 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?

I believe Hogwarts students are tested by more hands-on type activities as it 
*is* magic they learning which is more than just basic knowledge like in our 
world. When they *do* have to write things out it's usually an essay of 
sorts. Hogwarts is definitely a lot more work than Muggle schools! 

> 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?

I think Dumbledore probably just lets his staff choose whatever materials 
they feel are necessary to the supplies list. He gives the staff a lot of 
freedom

> 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?

I don't think any History textbooks require experience exactly but certainly 
a lot of research!

~ Calypso





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