CHAPTER DISCUSSION: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 6: Talons and Tea Leaves

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 189549

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at ...> wrote: 
Pippin:
  
> > Students in potions, transfiguration, DADA and CoMC are explicitly warned that these are dangerous subjects. That's fully a third of the usual twelve courses, not to mention Quidditch. Witches and wizards, IWO, are expected to cope.  Until the rest of the WW is willing to commit to creating a society where young wizards have no need for such skills until later in life, young wizards will have no choice but to study them.
 
Annemehr:
 
> Interesting comment.  And I'm not feeling adversarial, but exploratory.  So, in that frame of mind: How much do you think would need to change in wizard society so that young wizards would have no need of those skills though they may when they are older?  

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> If you're going to need those skills at all, may you not as well learn them in school while you are there?  As you point out using the examples of Lupin and Snape, the lessons themselves needn't be all that dangerous.

Geoff:
Of the group you quote, the only one I see as forced on the curriculum 
because of the "political" situation is DADA. I think the skills for the others 
would certainly be of value. Perhaps CoMC might be a minority option in 
their choices but the others are certainly worthy of retention.