The Heads of House usually spoke to their students about third-year electives before the Easter holidays. This year was no exception.
"Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes, Divination, Arithmancy, and Muggle Studies and Protection are the electives offered in your third year. You must take at least two of them while continuing your previous compulsory subjects. In your fifth-year Ordinary Wizarding Levels, you must obtain at least nine results to advance successfully."
That was what Professor McGonagall said.
With Hermione organizing things, Harry and the others had begun putting serious effort into researching electives over a month ago.
Harry had already decided to take Care of Magical Creatures. He had a very favorable impression of Professor Kettleburn.
Besides, the Three-Headed Dog, fire dragon, and unicorn from his first year, the basilisk from his second year, and the fantastic beasts he had learned about while investigating the basilisk had all struck him as fascinating.
Muggle Studies and Protection, on the other hand, was one subject Harry had firmly decided he would never take.
Harry felt that, as an "old hand" who had already spent twelve years living in the Muggle world, he had no need to learn about Muggles at a wizarding school.
Harry's view was very common among young wizards from Muggle and half-blood families. In fact, even their parents held much the same opinion.
Of course, there were exceptions.
Hermione was very interested in the subject because she wanted to know what the Muggle world looked like from a wizard's perspective.
Harry was a little torn over the remaining three subjects: Divination, Arithmancy, and Ancient Runes.
Harry put some effort into learning a little about these three courses.
Divination was easy enough to understand: it involved observing and sensing the future. From what he had learned so far, however,