The Arts at Hogwarts

[Tyler Hewitt]

No: HPFGUIDX 57198

The "other" Mrs. Weasley wrote:

Does it see odd to anyone else, but me, that Hogwarts
is lacking in the arts?  No music, literature or
artistry hardly at all!  The sorting hat does "sing"
his little tune at sorting time, and we do see art on
the walls, but other than that, there is little else
that the students are encouraged to do.

I would think at least one of the houses..Hufflepuff
possibly, would want their students to learn music,
art or literature.  But then again...maybe it's not
relevant to a "wizardring world"?


ME ME ME:
I've wondered about this a bit, mainly guessing that
most of the artistic types would be placed in
Ravenclaw.  I can speak from experience as an
artist-while most serious artists are hard workers (a
Hufflepuff trait), we are even more likely to be
studious nerds! It's true. When we are not in the
studio, as often as not you'll find artists in our
local library, bookstore or museum, doing research.
Many of the most intellectualy stimulating
conversations I've ever had has been with fellow
artists over mugs of green tea.

I'd love to study art at Hogwarts. I was wondering the
other day about wizard photography. What would the
image look like if you photographed an inanimate
object, like an empty chair? Would the chair in the
photo move?  Maybe you would see the person who last
sat in it. 
Where does the ability to show motion lie-in the
photograph iself or in the subject of the photo?

The wizarding world seems pretty creative to me. It
may be that creativity is a given among wizards and as
such doesn't warrent actual instruction (unlike us
muggles who like to dismiss creativity as useless and
horror of horors, 'feminine'). There has to be
creative wizards around-who made those paintings? 
Tyler


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