Electives

[alt_seamus]

So Mr Rosier owled me this morning already and had all sorts of advice about what I should take. He said I didn't need to ask Professor Lockhart for a recommendation to take Dark Arts because he'd write to Miss Professor Carrow himself. He said Divination can be worth taking simply to reinforce how 'generally inapplicable to anything in particular' it is, and that Care of Magical Creatures is enjoyable but 'somewhat overspecialised,' I think he means I'm not likely to wind up as a dragon keeper like Charlie Weasley. And he said Arithmancy was 'intellectually taxing but potentially highly rewarding to a diligent student' and Ancient Runes is 'more useful than you'd think, but less useful than you'd hope.'

So I still don't know.

Other than Dark Arts. If I get in, anyway. He definitely thought I should take Dark Arts if Miss Professor Carrow would let me.

Comments

[alt_harry]

Father has lots of advice too. Obviously I'm to take Dark Arts. He told me to take Ancient Runes also 'it's part of our heritage.'

You might not become a dragon keeper but Care of Magical Creatures looks fun doesn't it?

[alt_seamus]

It does look fun. Mr Rosier said if I took three electives it would be all right to take one class just because it looked fun, so I could maybe take Dark Arts, Arithmancy, and Care of Magical Creatures. OR I could take Dark Arts, Arithmancy, and Divination. Magical Creatures sounds more fun than Divination anyway.

[alt_ernie]

Does he think you should do Dark Arts, Arithmancy and Ancient Runes, then? Those ones looked like the most useful ones to me. But, like Marvolo said, Care of Magical Creatures might be fun.

It sounds like Mr Rosier doesn't think much of Divination though, so maybe don't bother with that? It sounds a bit soft anyway, all that fortune telling and stuff.

You're really lucky having someone like Mr Rosier to advise you. I wrote to my dad to ask him, but he's not written back yet. I think they're really busy at St Mungo's at the moment because of that Black's Poison.

[alt_seamus]

I think he thinks the real reason to take Divination is so if a fortune teller gives you advice, you know whether or not to listen.

[alt_padma]

Well, I'm not taking Divination, but I think Parvati really wants to. And Lav.

I've already asked Professor Vector and Professor Lockhart about Dark Arts, and I'm definitely doing Arithmancy. You don't really know Professor Vector but she's dead nift. I can't wait to have her as a teacher in lessons, not just as Head of House.

If Care of Magical Creatures were really important, then I'd do it, of course. But I think Ancient Runes may be more useful. I mean, there are loads of magical creatures at the London Zoo, and no one needs a Magical Creatures NEWT to go learn about them, right? I mean, only if you're going to be working with them, right?

[alt_seamus]

Well it might be useful if you have a large estate and keep creatures. Even if you don't work with them every day.

[alt_padma]

Maybe.

But that's one of the things that mudbloods are so good for, right? I mean, some Muggles can't even see certain magical creatures. But mudbloods can tell they're there, at least, and take care of them if they're trained properly. With wizard supervision, of course.

I guess it would be helpful to be able to know what to do with them, and all. And like you said about Mr Rosier and Divination, to know if the help are lying to you about your creature collection.

Really, I think Parvati just wants to take it to study unicorns more. She's still really proud of being chosen to lead the unicorn ceremony last year.