If a family was to be formed, the first question it had to face was—who controlled the household finances?
Most wizarding families believed that women managed the home while men went out to earn money. Extended to the school, this involved a question that had existed ever since Hogwarts was founded: did Arithmancy belong to Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff?
Arithmancy dealt with mathematics. If someone wanted to work at Gringotts, they had to obtain an OWL certificate in Arithmancy. If they wanted to remain at the school, they could also join the Arithmancy department. Ever since Albus Dumbledore became headmaster, Transfiguration had also gained its own dedicated department, filled with outstanding Transfiguration talent. But not everyone there served as a teacher. It belonged to Gryffindor.
Fortunately, Flitwick did not concern himself with such matters much, allowing Pomona to boldly purchase materials and hold grand banquets.
The history book Pomona was reading about sixteenth-century wizards had been written by Dexter Fortescue. He had once been Hogwarts's headmaster. At the time, he had advocated converting one of the towers into an Astronomy Tower, which would require a great deal of money to purchase astronomical telescopes and other equipment. This met with fierce opposition.
Astronomy was Hogwarts's only subject that shared knowledge with Muggles, since both recorded the paths of stars and planets. Wizards also had no need to use wands during those lessons.
By the seventeenth century, the conflict between wizards and Muggles had become extremely intense. There was no Muggle Studies then, but many books described how Muggles burned wizards at the stake. Fortescue wrote about it too, but unlike other authors, he did not focus on vilifying Muggles. Instead, he linked extreme weather, plagues, and political struggles together. Clearly, this did not align with the views of the pure-blood supremacists in