Muggle matches

[bibphile]

No: HPFGUIDX 75090

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:

Allyson:
I shudder to think what they are teaching in that Muggle Studies 
course.

Ffred:
What they're teaching, I think, is WW _perceptions_ of the Muggle 
world - how it looks to them. I suspect that a lot of Muggle born 
students sign up for the subject thinking it's going to be really 
easy but then find that they are completely lost in a sea of 
fellytones and pleasemen, not to mention the fact that a lot of 
things that we take as natural in our world would seem totally 
irrational to the WW.

me (bibphile):
Why don't they get a muggle-born to teach muggle-studies.  They 
understanf the muggle world and by the time they finish Hogwarts, 
they understand the wizarding world too.  Isn't there even one 
muggle-born who'd like to teach the subject.

I also think the muggle studies class is a little better than that.  
Hermione got 350% on her exam and she never once complained of the 
teacher getting things wrong.  And she would.

I think Arthur and many other wizards just have a problem with words 
that sound alike.  After all, it's easy to forget a word you don't 
use more than once a year.  I think Arthur had the basic idea of how 
to use a telephone, he just got the name wrong.  

Besides, we don't know when Hogwarts started offering muggle 
studies.  Some of the older wizard might not have had the 
opportunity to take it (and many other chose not too).

bibphile