Course Selection

The next day, when the Ravenclaw students woke up, they were surprised to find something.

In the corner of the Entrance Hall, nestled in a niche, lies the Ravenclaw hourglass, once filled with sapphires, but now the lower half is missing a large portion of its sapphires.

Although Slytherin still has more emeralds than other houses, the number of emeralds in Slytherin's hourglass is now very close to the number of sapphires in Ravenclaw's.

When they learned that Harry, his girlfriend, and Ron were the ones who started this whole thing, the three of them were surprisingly not ostracized by the others.

Harry's personal influence at Hogwarts and the fact that most Ravenclaw don't care much about House Points are not the main factors.

After Filch became Werewolf Wizard, nighttime walks at Hogwarts, which were almost a tacit agreement (unless caught red-handed), nearly disappeared.

But Filch's outstanding performance also aroused the rebellious mentality of the Hogwarts students.

Almost all Hogwarts students, who were confident in their magic and rarely went out at night, started going out at night.

Then they were caught one by one and points were deducted.

Most of these are Gryffindor and Slytherin.

Gryffindor because of their inherently adventurous and challenging nature.

Slytherin is distinguished by having the highest proportion of Pure-blood students compared to the other three houses.

They all knew more or less about the Squib, the Werewolf, and Fenrir Greyback.

Filch was clearly Squib.

They, who were already proud of their noble bloodline, obviously could not tolerate a Squib showing off at Hogwarts because of wolf-like symptoms and a ridiculous piece of magic in a newspaper.

Therefore, Harry and his friends' behavior was seen by most Hogwarts students as something that was currently trending and that most students wanted to try.

That's understandable.

However, this has also led to the following results: Gryffindor 17, Hufflepuff 35, Slytherin 49, and Ravenclaw 58.

This is a score that has never been achieved since the school was founded.

The deans of all four colleges have practically given up and don't care much about this year's House Points.

In addition, even before the final has been held, it is clear that Ravenclaw will win the Quidditch Cup.

Even if Ravenclaw loses all their points recently, the House Cup might still be Ravenclaw, considering the points they earned from the Champions League.

However, Harry and his friends didn't pay much attention to these things.

Course selection, which should have been scheduled before the Easter holiday in March, has been delayed until today.

Therefore, on Friday, the last working day of the school year (exams are in June), second-year students have no classes.

They were all in the lounge, or somewhere else, thinking about which courses they should choose for their Third Year.

Harry and his friends were in the Great Hall, right with Draco.

As usual, Pansy, Crabbe, Goyle did not come to the Ravenclaw table.

According to Draco, whatever he chose, they chose too.

Not far away, because Luna was in class, Hermione, who thought she had Ryan all to herself, was complaining, "Why can't we check all the subjects like the students in previous years?"

The culprit— Ryan, who made the Ministry of Magic afraid to use the Time-Turner again—said, "The courses we already have are compulsory, so we don't need to worry about them."

Divination Class, Arithmancy, relies too much on talent. There are very few people in Hogwarts with a talent for Prophecy. Hermione, you don't need to choose that class.

As for Muggle Studies, its content is outdated; Riddle's Defense Against the Dark Arts is sufficient.

Ancient Runes are useful—if you truly want to be the master of magic rather than its user.

Even the worst teacher can't make a lesson on Care of Magical Creatures boring; in fact, it's quite effective.

In the original timeline, Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures became boring when Harry was in his fourth year because Hagrid also took on the important task of breeding new species for the Triwizard Tournament competition.

And coincidentally, the Blast-Ended Skrewt doesn't have any interesting features.

"Then I won't choose those three courses you mentioned." Hermione said sweetly as she checked the boxes on the new course list.

Harry suddenly said, "I know which three subjects I don't need to choose: Divination, Arithmancy, Muggle Studies."

"Wait, you listened to Ryan, didn't you?"

"Harry, you have a talent for Prophecy, you absolutely have to choose Divination Class." Ron rolled his eyes.

"Also, you absolutely must choose the Muggle Studies."

"Muggle-born students all take this course to get easy grades."

"Your OWLT (Ordinary Wizarding Level) and OWLT (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests) results will look better later on," Malfoy suggested from a pragmatic perspective.

"That's right, the future development of the magical world cannot be separated from the knowledge of the Muggle world," Ron suddenly realized.

In the magical world, the grades on diplomas or certificates are very important when looking for a job.

If you want to choose Muggle- related job, even if you really understand Muggle, you can't compare to someone who has a certificate with grades for that course if you haven't taken Muggle Studies.

He's not Muggle-born wizard, so he can't rely on his Muggle-born to get a job.

"Since I can't choose 12 subjects, I'll remove Arithmancy and Muggle Studies," Harry decided.

"Which one should I remove?"

"I don't want to choose 10 courses." Ron closed his eyes and randomly tapped the list with his wand, deciding which course he would choose.

"Divination?"

"No, because of Lavender, I also want to take the Divination Class." Ron said with a bitter face.

"I don't want Muggle Studies either."

"Arithmancy?" Ron hesitated, thinking Lavender might choose it.

He ultimately decided to do the same as Harry. If Lavender was going to choose Arithmancy, he would cross out Ancient Runes.

"Then I'll be like Harry." Draco shrugged.

He felt that at least Harry and the others would be with him that way.

And Muggle Studies?

While Draco believed that knowledge of the Muggle world was indeed important, he was certain that Hogwarts' Muggle Studies was not very good.

Ron's father was self-taught.

"You don't need to choose Arithmancy anymore." Seamus at the Gryffindor table turned his head.

"During our Herbology, Lavender and Ernie Macmillan of Hufflepuff had a fight."

"But maybe it wasn't even an argument."

"They argued about whether Divination Class or Arithmancy was more effective."

"I don't need to tell you, you know that Lavender is from the Divination Class, right? She and Parvati go to Professor Trelawney's Divination Class almost every time they have free time."

"As far as I can tell, she's unlikely to choose Arithmancy," Dean said, turning his head to add.

His father's friend Dedalus Diggle Diggle, was also a member of the Order of the Phoenix.

"That's great, I don't have to cross out the Ancient Runes anymore."

"I was so close to losing my genius brain to this course!" Ron breathed a sigh of relief.

The people around looked at each other, unsure of what to say.

Dean and Seamus regretted saying those words.

This will lead to the Ancient Runes having students like Ron.