Beauty in HP (WAS: THEORY: Hogwarts curriculum)

[potioncat]

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SSSusan:
  After all, we don't hear about brushing teeth or taking 
> showers, either, and presumably that's happening. :-)  In this 
case,  though, as opposed to the tooth-brushing, I think these "non-
> pragmatic" parts of education just really AREN'T dealt with much 
at  Hogwarts.  Being a liberal arts kinda gal, I think that's a bit 
sad.

Potioncat:
I think you're right.  And the only reason I can think of for JKR to 
have left them out is that they don't sound as cool as the magic 
classes do.

On the other hand, do we know that we've been given the complete 
list of electives? (sorry, don't know the British word.)  Is Dean 
Thomas taking Magic Paintbrush classes?  Wouldn't someone be taking 
Ancient Languages for spell development?  Or has this been said 
before and I've forgotten.  (not old age, but a stray memory 
charm...)