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 Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:08 am
Professor Cara MacDonald
Muggle Studies Teacher
Head of Hufflepuff House Assignment #1: Beginning-of-year Essay Please write a short essay (a minimum of two paragraphs, with approximately 6-8 sentances each) about what you know already about Muggles. If you don't know anything, then write about things you wish to learn in the upcoming year. This is due two weeks from today. If you happen not to have it completed on this day, I will not take away points. You will be graded on how well-written it is and the content of the essay.
The maximum amount of points available is: 20.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:09 am
Assignment Requirements
To pass in your assignment, simply post it here. If there is no length requirement stated, Cara expects a minimum of two well-written paragraphs, with around 6-8 sentances each. Usually if your assignment is passed in late, she will deduct marks, but at times she lets it slide. Also, if it is passed in early Cara will consider it a rushed work.
She will post comments in gold after it has been passed in.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:10 am
History of Points Awarded
Assignment #1: Beginning-of-year essay
No assignments yet to be passed in.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:09 pm
Graelim Date-Kereshutur
Durmstang
7th Year
Please write a short essay (a minimum of two paragraphs, with approximately 6-8 sentances each) about what you know already about Muggles. If you don't know anything, then write about things you wish to learn in the upcoming year. This is due two weeks from today. If you happen not to have it completed on this day, I will not take away points. You will be graded on how well-written it is and the content of the essay.
I know for a fact that Muggles are not as advanced in magical property as we, the wizards and witches, are. They do not have the use of any spiritual, magical, or psychic magics, which can often make their life much harder than our own. They are forced to do physical labor all on their own, without the option of using magic to help them along. Simple chores, such as cleaning and cooking have to be prepared by the hand of the person who wished them to be done, instead of allowing such chores to take care of themselves. The Muggles must rely on their own person to take care of things, while we simply conjure up a spell to cause the chore to take care of itself. We have the ability to have anything we wanted, by transfiguration, and we can transport via teleportation, port key, and fire. Muggles have to buy what they want, and must resort to money-consuming transportation. Our lives can be described as much easier when compared to the average life of the Muggles.
There are a few things that I would like to understand about Muggles, personally. For example, I would really like to know how it is that they manage to exist with so many different forms of currency. I mean, I understand that they have places in which to exchange one form to another, but wouldn't it be much easier to just have one form, like our own Galleons, Sickles, and such? Another thing I would like to learn is their obsession with trying to become more advances in electronics. One would think that they would want to attempt at becoming advanced in magic, not electronics. There are so many things I know about the Muggle ways, but I can't understand why they are so. I hope to be able to understand their simple and primitive logic, instead of just knowing about it.
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:28 am
Reijand Adnide
Ravenclaw
Sixth Year My knowledge on Muggles is far more limited than in should be, but my summer time interaction with their community has led me to learn many things. For example, many Muggles use an item called a “vacuum cleaner” to literally suck the grim from their floors. Rather time consuming compared to an evaporating potion, but then, they have no choice. Electricity powers almost all of their items, and can be rather entertaining – such as televisions, boxes that show Muggles acting out plays or lending information, and microwave ovens, machines that heat food while spinning it around in circles. Unlike the people of the wizarding world, Muggles cannot perform magic. It is an amazing achievement that they have managed to literally lift themselves into the sky aboard massive creations like airplanes. (Large machined that fly people from one location to
another.)
There is much, however, that I do not understand about the Muggle world. For one, how is it that they can pass by such obvious signs of magic, and truly not see it? What makes their mind different from ours, in that spells can literally change what they are thinking? Do we, as witches and wizards, leak a magical ‘aura’ that enables us to deflect these spells – something that Muggles naturally lack? And why, oh why, do pictures refuse to move? The potion itself is rather easy, and I fail to understand how Muggles have managed to skim past all the magical ingredients that surround their very footsteps. I hope to one day fully understand these people, and their contraptions, so that the next time I am working in a Muggle household, I do not run from a sparking plug.
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