[HPforGrownups] Lack of traditional academics...

[Lucy Austin]

No: HPFGUIDX 33841

>Terri Lyn said:

>We were discussing how JKR seems to have done a decent job of laying out the
groundwork for the magical coursework. However, we noticed that there was a
complete lack of traditional coursework at Hogwarts.  This would be work in
English (grammer, literature, etc.), Mathematics (where's the calc, algebra,
and trig?  There's arithromancy... but JKR neither explains the content nor
is it a required class), more traditional science than is in
potions/herbology/COMC.  What about art classes?  Music, painting, and the
like?  You can't tell me that Fat Lady just showed up like that... someone
had to have painted her.  We know there's insturments (the harp and flute by
fluffy), where are they taught how to play them?  Does Hogwarts have a pep
band (either in general or per house) that plays during Q'ditch matches?
And another course that seems to be lacking is psychology.  Wouldn't it make
sense to have a base way of evaluating the subject of your charm to see if
they would actually mentally "buy" it?

My fiance is also very bothered about this - we don't know what primary schooling wizards get, but at the very best, they apparently go through secondary schooling with no more knowledge of maths, english, science, music etc than an average 10 year old. I can only suggest that they do have these sorts of lessons, but that it isn't much fun to write about them compared to the Magic lessons!

Lucy


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