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Classes at Hogwarts
The following pages contain a lot of material about the classes at Hogwarts. Do not feel you have to cover everything or anything listed. NOTE: No activity materials are included in this document. It does reference the badge programs and supplements that go with the Adult Enrichment Project Harry Potter set.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Activities

Classes by Year
Year 1: Core classes Astronomy Charms Defense Against the Dark Arts Flying Herbology History of Magic Potions Transguration Year 2: Core classes (same as Year 1, except for Flying) Year 3: Core classes plus two electives (same as Year 1, except for Flying) Electives: Ancient Runes Arithmancy Care of Magical Creatures Divination Muggle Studies Year 4: Core classes plus electives (see Year 3) Year 5: Core classes plus electives (see Year 3) Year 6: Classes determined by result of O.W.L.s Year 7: Classes in chosen elds

Ordinary Wizarding Level Grading System

O = Outstanding (Pass, continue to N.E.W.T.) E = Exceeds Expectations (Pass, continue to N.E.W.T.) A = Acceptable (Pass, rarely to N.E.W.T.) P = Poor (Fail, may repeat subject) D = Dreadful (Fail, no O.W.L. credit) T = Troll (Fail, with distinction. More than one T may mean refusal into other N.E.W.T.s)

Class Descriptions
Ancient Runes Location: Professor: Class:

Standard classroom Bathsheba Babbling Classwork/homework includes plenty of practice interpreting runes. The O.W.L. involves translating something written in runes into English.

Arithmancy / Advanced Arithmancy Studies Location: Standard classroom Professor: Septima Vector Class: Arithmancy is a branch of magic that is concerned with the magical properties of numbers; students are expected to write essays and to be able to understand complicated number charts.

Astronomy Location: Professor: Class:

Astronomy Tower (meets at midnight) Aurora Sinistra Essays for the theory portion involve learning a lot of facts. During their practical O.W.L., the fth years had to ll in a star chart by locating and correctly identifying various celestial bodies then visible in the sky.

Care of Magical Creatures Location: Outside the castle, Forbidden Forest Professor: Kettleburn Rubeus Hagrid, substitute Wilhemina Grubbly-Plank Class: Class involves handling, feeding, controlling various creatures.

Charms Location: Professor: Class:

Inside the castle Filius Flitwick Charms is learning and practicing charms and spells.

Defense Against the Dark Arts Location: Standard classroom Professor: Quirinus Quirrell Gilderoy Lockhart Remus John Lupin Bartemius Barty Crouch, Jr. (Fake Mad-Eye Moody) Dolores Jane Umbridge Severus Snape Amycus Carrow Class: Studies curses and creatures, and how to deal with them. Year one: general overview Year two: basic Dark creatures Year three: intermediate Dark creatures Year four: curses Year ve: read the Slinkhard book (true curriculum unknown) Year six: Dementors, Inferi

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Divination Location: Professor: Class:

Top of tower; standard classroom. Sibyll Patricia Trelawney Firenze (centaur) Covers reading tea leaves, palmistry, crystal balls, astrology, and more.

Flying Location: Professor: Class: Outside the castle Madam Rolanda Hooch Learn to y and control broomsticks.

Herbology Location: Professor: Class:

Greenhouses Pomona Sprout Growing, potting and harvesting plants. Plants become more dangerous as the students progress.

History of Magic Location: Professor: Class:

Standard classroom Cuthbert Binns (ghost) Boring lectures on magical history.

Muggle Studies Location: Professor: Class:

Standard classroom Charity Burbage Alecto Carrow Explores technology and life without magic.

Potions Location: Professor: Class:

Dungeons Severus Snape Horace E. F. Slughorn Includes memorizing properties of potion ingredients, composition of specic potions and practice preparing nal potions. Often a double class because of the work involved.

Transguration Location: Professor: Class:

Standard classroom Minerva McGonagall Learning how and practicing changing one item into another.

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Miscellaneous Class Notes These include some ideas that you might want to incorporate into your event. A loud bell signies the end of classes. Class times and lengths vary. Material presented varies by professor.

Ideas per class

Ancient Runes Learn about runes and their meaning Create your own secret runes Incorporate runes into an art project that shows what it means Incorporate runes into a bandanna or scarf

Arithmancy / Advanced Arithmancy Studies Math games What are your numbers? Find your magic number

Astronomy Star gazing Star charts Create a solar system Make telescopes Guess the constellation game

Care of Magical Creatures Make houses birds, bats, butteries, etc. Make feeders birds, bats, butteries, etc. Taking care of your pet Magical pets what magical powers do your pets have? Nature presentation with owls, snakes, etc. Creating or xing a habitat Leave No Trace workshop Dissect owl pellets Pin the tail on the (unicorn, dragon, Dudley, etc.) Create a magical creature from recycled materials / explain what it does First aid Create brown paper bag monster puppets

Charms

Charms, Curses and Spells trading cards Wand making Bookmaking Make quills and ink Make magic items (SWAPs) Simple magic tricks

Defense Against the Dark Arts Dragon piata Basic self-protection technique presentation Dodgeball

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Divination Fortune teller / cootie catcher Make a crystal ball (baby food jar / snowglobes) Read tea leaves

Flying Broomstick obstacle course Make and compete with paper airplanes Quidditch game

Herbology Herbs, identify (dont do handouts, let students sketch plants) Flowers, identify Poisonous plants, identify Make a terrarium in a bottle, balloon, etc. Decorate clay pots Make plant pokes / markers Plant seeds / bulbs to take home (the more unusual the better)

History of Magic Monotone voice on a recorder telling magic history Songs about magic and magical creatures Skits about magic and magical creatures Magical history of Girl Scouts Movies about magic and magical creatures Create a timeline of your life Write and distribute The Daily Prophet or The Quibbler Create magic trading cards

Muggle Studies Technology and Magic matching cards / list Photography (non-moving pictures)

Potions Potions trading cards Science experiments Bath bombs and other beauty items Create drinks Make or adjust edible recipes Firestarters / ame-coloring mixtures Ice cream bar Dissect owl pellets No-cook recipes such as instant pudding, fudge in a bag, etc.

Transguration Science experiments Found items into collage art Cooking Invisible ink Mask making Costume / accessory making Coloring sheets NOTE: These are examples only. Feel free to add your own or move the activities to another class if you feel it would t better there.

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