I wrote to him today to ask about the NEWT class. Madam Pomfrey thought this would be a good time to drop it.
He said, hang on.
'My NEWT classes are a departure from OWL-level classes. Over the two-year curriculum, we explore ritual and cooperative magic, cursed and magic-infused objects (the making, safe handling, and disposal thereof), warding, runework, and certain non-Western traditions, in addition to delving more deeply into the history and theory of the Noble Arts than we have had time to do thus far this year. In addition to that, though, I will also be teaching fundamental and underlying skills that should serve you in excellent stead in your future endeavours no matter what they might be: logic, rhetoric, how to perform research, how to evaluate sources, and how to compose an argument (and evaluate and refute an incorrect argument put forth by others).'
So here's the thing. NO ONE ELSE teaches ANYTHING about most of this. We do a little bit in runes with objects and in Charms we'll learn the Protean Charm but not much else about objects. No one else talks about ritual and cooperative magic, and that's what the Fidelius Charm is, you know, I looked it up. Acton isn't going to cover it, or anything like it. It's not even remotely Dark Arts but I bet Dolohov would, if we asked him -- though not this week because the absolutely LAST thing I need is to get him thinking about precisely what secrets I might want to magically hide. Although probably he'd figure we wanted to hide Arista and Hector really, really, really well.
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I wrote to him today to ask about the NEWT class. Madam Pomfrey thought this would be a good time to drop it.
He said, hang on.
'My NEWT classes are a departure from OWL-level classes. Over the two-year curriculum, we explore ritual and cooperative magic, cursed and magic-infused objects (the making, safe handling, and disposal thereof), warding, runework, and certain non-Western traditions, in addition to delving more deeply into the history and theory of the Noble Arts than we have had time to do thus far this year. In addition to that, though, I will also be teaching fundamental and underlying skills that should serve you in excellent stead in your future endeavours no matter what they might be: logic, rhetoric, how to perform research, how to evaluate sources, and how to compose an argument (and evaluate and refute an incorrect argument put forth by others).'
So here's the thing. NO ONE ELSE teaches ANYTHING about most of this. We do a little bit in runes with objects and in Charms we'll learn the Protean Charm but not much else about objects. No one else talks about ritual and cooperative magic, and that's what the Fidelius Charm is, you know, I looked it up. Acton isn't going to cover it, or anything like it. It's not even remotely Dark Arts but I bet Dolohov would, if we asked him -- though not this week because the absolutely LAST thing I need is to get him thinking about precisely what secrets I might want to magically hide. Although probably he'd figure we wanted to hide Arista and Hector really, really, really well.