Subjects - Hogwarts

Ancient Runes: translations of forgotten wards. Arithmancy: numbers predicting battlefields. Alchemy: the old dream of gold and eternal life. Electives for the brave or the lost.

At the end of the day, in the Great Hall, candles float above house tables. A first-grader mends her quill with a shaky Reparo . A seventh-year reviews Patronus theory. Somewhere, a cauldron still smokes. Somewhere, a spell still hangs in the air, unfinished. hogwarts subjects

History of Magic, Binns drones on about goblin rebellions. No one listens. But hidden under the desk, a Slytherin passes notes, a Gryffindor sketches a Firebolt, a Ravenclaw reads ahead. The ghost floats through the blackboard, indifferent. Ancient Runes: translations of forgotten wards

Astronomy at midnight: cold stone, colder wind. The telescope shows Jupiter’s moons like scattered seeds. Sinistra points her wand at Orion’s belt. “Remember,” she says, “the stars saw magic before we named it.” Electives for the brave or the lost

Charms is a gentler chaos. Flitwick stands on his stack of books, teaching Wingardium Leviosa with a flick and a swish. Feathers drift upward like dandelion ghosts. A Hufflepuff’s quill spins lazily; a Ravenclaw’s shoots to the ceiling. Theory whispers in the margins: intention is half the spell.

At nine in the morning, the Transfiguration classroom smells of polished mahogany and singed whiskers. Professor McGonagall taps her wand, and a teapot shudders into a tortoise. “You,” she says, eyes like flint, “will do better by Friday.”