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_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.