Elective Classes

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 25857

Kelly the Yarn Junkie wrote:

>Divination is the only listed elective.  All the other classes were
>mentioned in some way shape or form before PoA, so we still don't know
>what the second elective is.

We know that Harry, Ron and Hermione don't take Care of Magical Creatures 
until PoA, so that is the second elective (Hermione's fifth).

>Hmmm.  If Care of Magical Creatures is, in fact, an elective:

>1) Why did Harry need _Fantastic Beasts..._ for his first year?

It sounds like it would be a useful text for DADA.

>2) Why didn't Malfoy quit after the Buckbeak incident?

Some possibilities:

(a) "Elective" is a tricky term; they choose which classes to take but they 
don't choose how many.  He has to take *something.*

(b) Quitting would be quitting.  He's going to stick it out and outlast 
Hagrid.

(c) He really wants to learn Care of Magical Creatures, the better to 
oversee the gamekeeper back home when he inherits the mansion, and because 
Lucius won't let him have a fire crab until he can take care of it himself.

Amy Z

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