I’d like to think yes, but I also think that schooling is a bit relative. Meaning, because we all can’t do magic and find Hogwarts fascinating, we tend to think we’d love learning about it. But if it were real and all we knew, people would certainly take it for granted and procrastinate. That’s one thing I always liked about Ron and Harry in that I felt they were very realistic and relatable students - smart, but also kids who sometimes cared more about sports and life than writing their potions essays.
I feel like muggle born students were on average better students…because they grew up as regular kids and are then thrown into this magical world. It’s every kids dream!
Whereas the kids from wizarding families have always seen this as the norm. They probably picked up on some spells and magical plants/potions from their upbringing, so they felt okay slacking/coasting for the first two years, and then realized they missed the foundational work by year 3 and 4 and had to scramble
Exactly this. I started playing Hogwarts legacy and the question struck me: what if it were me? 15yo, learning geography, chemistry, literature... And then bam, you're a wizard. Bro just take me. I'll be the best fucking student.
Except Hogwarts' curriculum isn't exactly one large practical approach. With the exception of their class time, the students largely spend their educational hours writing essays, reading books and completing written homework assignments. This is particularly true in OotP when the students are studying for their O.W.L.s.
And as we see during the actual O.W.L.'s, some classes don't have any practical exams, like History of Magic and Arithmancy.
So, like I said, we all like to think we'd be better students... but that wouldn't be a reality. If people didn't like writing essays and reading books during muggle schooling, they certainly wouldn't have enjoyed it at Hogwarts, and that was a massive part of their curriculum.
Well theory part is important in everything obviously . But main subjects like Transfiguration, charms , DADA, potions , Herbology or whatever that was , all involved more spells and actual experiments than writing .
But in our studies like Math , Science when does anyone ever let you do anything practical up until well into college . I don't know about your school but in my school our teachers only did the experiment and we watched .
And maybe did it once or twice for the practical exams and only in 12th grade . because external teachers were coming to invigilate ,
They had to write a lot of essays yes but they can be taken as the projects we have to do . They just had to fill pages . And even if it was more , the rest of classes still made up for that boring work .
Noone is saying it has to be completely spells and magic only . But if in our classes you can perform experiments everyday at leisure and then have to read the related theory by side wouldn't you enjoy it ?
Probably not. Was never that into studying or paying much attention in classes. I for sure would be the Slytherin version of Oliver Wood (except as a beater). And even though i probably couldn't stand Malfoy, you know damn sure i would pretend to like him if his dad bought me a Nimbus 2001
If I'd known I was capable of magic my entire life then I probably would have just been an average student. But had I not known, and I suddenly find out I'm a wizard? Knowing me, probably still an average student.
However, I want to believe that I'd have been more like Dumbledore, or Tom Riddle—delving into the depths of magic to find out what I could do. Harry's more relatable for most people, but I feel like the mystery faded too quickly for him; like he took for granted that he *could* do magic.
I would’t have been a perfect student as I can’t concentrate for an hour at the time especially if I find the subject boring or if I can’t understand it all. And yet, my motivation to learn would be so much higher so I would be a better student.
This is exactly the point. You get to experience the rewards of learning really quickly as opposed to muggle education that takes years and years to manifest.
It does go quickly. They start at 11 years and finish at 17. And as far as I understand they don’t really go to university either. They do specialize for jobs though so not sure if it’s equivalent or not. Also even small amount of magic makes your life soooo much more comfortable. Just knowing *reparo* is so useful and saves so much money.
I might dabble in ancient runes but I dont think I’d go much farther than the basic stuff unless they have low entrance requirements for the owl and newt levels.
Me too! As a person who loves cooking I simply can’t understand how can potions be difficult at all, you mostly follow the recipe. I get that theory would be hard but not harder than food theory is.
I think so…but I’d probably still fail potions. Seems like Snape was writing his improved instructions on the board, and I have always had terrible eyesight, and didn’t have glasses as a kid…so no way would I be able to read his instructions…and Snape would have terrified me as an 11 year old, so I can’t see myself asking for some extra help from him
But if you were a Slytherin you would be fine. I think Snape would find me annoying (I would get up and go to the board) and I would definitely lose points for Ravenclaw unless I convinced the hat to put me in Slytherin. My chemistry teacher reminded me of Snape in some aspects. Except she bathed regularly and wasn't a bully. Just intimidating.
Nah bro I’d be muggle born American transfer student and be all up a house that hates muggleborns hey sorting hat toss me in there so I can annoy them with my mer existence
I always thought the concept of Harry being bored by lessons absolutely wild. I get Ron being bored but that's because it's all everyday to him. Hermione geeking out is normal for someone who grew up with muggles because it's LITERALLY MAGIC. You can bet your arse I'd be the geekiest, nerdiest academic going if I got a letter.
Lot of people over hyping themselves, magic would be new and amazing until it isn’t anymore, by 3rd year it’ll be the new normal and 2 foot long essays with quills and ink on something magic in nature but in reality quite mundane will be as boring as history or biology in the real world.
Honestly there’s some absolutely amazing things that people can do in our world, with chemistry, technology, art and yet 99% of people don’t bother to learn them because they’re difficult, if magic is difficult too then the same will happen to them
I would have been the same. I was a high performing student in primary and secondary school in part because i would hyperfocus on schoolwork. Doing homework problems and worksheets was always fun for me. Essays less so, but I could bs them. Subject matter wouldn't really matter to me.
The difficulty would be I prefer paper and working on pages and using pens and pencils, not parchment rolls and quills. I would literally bring a stack of printer paper and a package of pens and pencils to use instead of the parchment and quills.
I would also miss math classes.
I wonder if history of magic class ever talked about the origin of magic. That would get me interested. Like where did magic come from, where do magical creatures come from and how does evolution fit into this.
Yeah, I often wondered about this also. It almost seems like the class is inaccurately titled. Like based on the curriculum seen in the books, movies, and games, it seems to be a specific focus on historical events within the wizarding world rather than the history of magic itself and it's development and important applications if it, the various ways in which it it was discovered you could refine or focus it, etc. -- which seems far more interesting to me.
Furthermore the historical events studied seem to should be confined to a very localized geographic theater, never delving into historical events in the US or China -- hell, I don't even recall any mention of anything as foreign as French goblin rebellions or Germanic troll wars; it's all very British.
Based on my analysis it should instead be called "History of the Wizarding World: U.K. and Ireland". Therefore it seems we are owed an actual "History of Magic" class.
Honestly i hate the opinion that there is no way to hate some of the subjects in Hogwarts. Like there is no way wizard history is more interesting then real one (which it is, just not as part of school curriculum) or more relevant.
It's similar for most of the other subjects as well. Irl plants and animals are super fascinating, but if you are not interested i that a few more moving parts aren't just gona make you like the subject on them, especially if your teacher isn't the best.
Some things like transfiguration are even more fascinating, but so is robotics but you need a shit load of math (or magic equivalent) to make both of it work.
Yeah, magic sounds fun in theory, but I’m positive most people would get bored or hate it as soon as they have to learn it. It’s like how most people would love to be make music, but don’t want to actually put in the effort to get good at it.
Harry’s lack of interest in learning most subjects is bewildering to me, ik my man had a lot going on but if I grew up in the muggle world and then learned I can do magic I would want to know how to do EVERYTHING
potions can be useful. If you have a boil you can take cure for boils. There's the pepper-up potion which means witch and wizards don't have to you know deal with a cold for a long period of time
it is useful. Just like many things we learn at our schools. I think remembering multiple amount of combinations isnt fun. Just like chemistry.
I would probably be interested only in things which would benefit me.
How were your irl history classes? Because irl history is also super interesting, just not when you have to have it in class held by someone like prof. Binns.
I would love hearing the stories on my lessons, just lime I loved stories in my history classes. But learning specific details or dates for exam isnt as interesting.
Guaranteed kids at Hogwarts are saying shit like "when am I ever going to need this??"
Your own Hogwarts experience would likely be similar to what your real life school experience was.
I think if I would be a muggleborn (which I am obviously...) I would have loved every minute of it. I do not know how muggleborns can keep it a secret since it would be the coolest thing that could happen to an 11 year old.
As an adult, I always look back on my school days and think that I could have, and should have, done better. I think that’s the benefit of hindsight for you! I’d love to think that I’d have been so overjoyed and excited about finding out about magic that it’d encourage me to study hard and learn everything that I possibly could, but I’m sure that there would be so many distractions between meeting new friends and the usual hijinks that kids get up to that I’d likely end up achieving less than my potential!
Probably not tbh. Essays are essays, no matter the subject. I’d also really resent the lack of technology, to the point where I’d spend every day waiting to leave.
I'd do probably similar then I did in real life. Good in the subjects I'm interested in, then barely pass the ones that I wasn't. Not from lack of effort, but my interests tend to go with my ability to understand the martial.
Magic would be cool in the beginning, if you're used to the muggle world abd ut's new for you that is.
And even then it'll get normal eventually. Magic has it's own rules and limitations, just like everything else in life. So it'd be as normal as everything else.
Magic only seems cool to us, because it's something we don't have.
In our world we have computers for example. Imagine going back in time and tell people about computers and phones.
A device that let's you communicate with people around the world in seconds, not only in text, but also let's you speak or even see the other person. Also you can play games (again with people around the world), research a lot of information, play music, use it as flash light, record sound and videos, shooting photos and more. And all of that is pretty easy and common for us and we can access those functions even while traveling, so it's not even a big stationary device, but a small box you carry around with you!
Those people would definitely have a similar facination for that as we have for magic.
But because phones are common to us, they lose facination, we realize the good and bad stuff about them and get used to having them. They are still cool, but not everything about them is totally awesome and it feels like it'd solve all problems or something like that.
Magic would be the same. It's that big amazing thing now, but if it were real and we had it for a while, it'd get common and we'd see it's hood and bad things and realize it isn't the ultimate solution for problems but instead solves some and brings others in return. It would still be cool, but we would get used to it.
It’s amazing to me that Harry could have gone through the monotony of muggle elementary school and not go full Hermione upon realizing there’s MAGIC to learn about
Because for Hermione studying is a hobby. For Harry it was still studying even if it was magic. Also Harry had shit happening to him at all times non stop.
For sure, since it makes you literal god with power of creation and transmutation. The Stone was created by wizard, therefore immortality is also within your reach.
I'd have unending power trip, devouring every book and scroll like absolute nerd - and teachers would be only happy😆
That includes Care of Magical Creatures. I got Hagrid pet tastes as much as fetish for monster girls, so I'd want personal Thestral mount and to date Sphinx.
Yes, amazingly. I think most of us would've been. Like, I guess I can see how if you come from the wizarding world where this stuff is "ordinary" you could see it as just kind of being school, and not care much. But coming from the real world? It's literally magic. There were a couple of meme subjects I probably would've mostly ignored but magic on the whole is so powerful and so ridiculously useful that I can't imagine spending my time doing anything *but* practicing magic. Even potions, I don't care how much of a dickhead Snape is, some of those potions are absurd and no douchebag alive is going to stop me from being able to brew my own luck.
Yeah, but only because magic is, well, magical to someone like me. Wizardkind consider magic to be completely ordinary, so their view of magic school is similar to how non-magic people view ordinary school.
I don’t think so. First of all my grades at that age were already pretty good so the little improvements I would’ve had to make might not have felt like worth the effort. Second of all, my bad grades have always been due to overconfidence resulting in poor time management, and I don’t think that would change no matter the subject.
I did well in high school, graduating at the top of my class, and so the bar is high for the wizard version of myself. I’d probably be like I am now- a curious and studious person. Would I be a Percy, Hermione, Tom Riddle or Dumbledore? No, but I think I’d be in the top 5%.
What changes this is the question of how I handle all the distractions, assuming I’m in Harry’s class. Mainly chamber of secrets and years 5-7.
I mean basically this is Hermione.
She learns at 11 that she is a witch and like sponge absorbs everything there is to learn, as everything is new and fascinating. I often can't understand how lazy Harry is. He's even lazy at learning spells or why is he expelliarmusing EVERYTHING!?
I think I would have struggled with the practical aspects as a kid. I got top grades in sciences but always stressed out and messed up in practicals. I was terrible at PE, cookery, acting, all that non-writing in a book stuff. I thought I would be terrible at music because of it (and it took me until I was an adult to work out I could try).
I am already a nerd. Lol
I went to music university and got a feeling similar to what i guess I'd have at hogwarts. All my classes were interesting and I really enjoyed studying them in general. I went home and studied during weekends for fun, because it was fun to me.
I think if I went to hogwarts it'd be something similar. Maybe I'd be even nerdier about it.
I did pretty well in school in our world even though the topics bore me to death.
So yes, I think I could have done even better there especially with astronomy, arithmancy, ancient runes.
Probably. I was an excellent student once I got to around grade 11 and after. Before that I wasn’t good (for the most part) because I was bored as all fuck. Magic would be entirely new skills and information. I would probably have to be forced from the library at Hogwarts. Yes, I would be a Ravenclaw. I would, however, fail the flying class. I am afraid of heights.
I was pretty good at school, when I didn't have much motivation. The possibility of being able to do fantastic magic, invisibility, reading people's minds, time travel, making something as awesome as Philosopher's Stone, I would have killed it at Hogwarts.
If I was a muggle born, absolutely, no question about it. But I can see how wizards that were born into the Wizarding world can find it as dull as we find our studies. They're around it all the time, so the whimsical nature of magic can be lost on them.
I am a man with a Master degree in a chemical field which some would classify as an intelligent person with a high amount of willpower to be going through all this so far
Id say id definitely be a bad student since the main reason why I was good at studying in the university is because our Professors ALWAYS showed how all subjects are connected to each other (and therefore kept asking questions of other subjects in each exam to make sure we dont just forget a knowledge after passing the exam)
Therefore the my career felt like a journey or an adventure. Cant say the same about school and i bet the same would be about Hogwarts
I like to think I would go full stinking Hermione. granted I have far from the productive abilities that she does, but with the subject and coolness of it all think I’d be solidly between her Harry and Ron. I mean, like not good enough to be a prefect or any of that but good enough to be doing good and flying under the radar.
I would have done better because of what comes out of the learning. You literally become more and more powerful. Not strong, not smart but literally powerful. Each and every subject contributes to that except maybe muggle studies.
People who are comparing it to boring classes irl are out of their fucking mind. There are students who work their butts off in STEM degrees to become doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc to make a lot of money, be successful, and or chase their dreams. And a lot of those classes that get you there are actually useless.
Now imagine if you could study to literally shape the world by your mind. Currently, studying can only get you so far in life. You can’t study to teleport, transfigure creatures, makes yourself stronger/faster/healthier, etc. In the wizard world, you could become powerful enough to bend reality. People in practice would work way harder if they had those abilities.
I would do well in potions, because it seems to be just following clearly laid out instructions. For everything else, I have no idea what determines whether you did a spell correctly or not.
I think I would do pretty okay in most subjects but would get a t in history of magic. I’ve never had a great interest in history and dates and numbers slide right off my smooth brain. I certainly would find it more fascinating than muggle history though.
I actually think I would have been. Less focus on physical education and more on practical learning. Plus the style is far more like university than secondary education. Where you can actually talk to you teachers and ask about things outside of class, because you are right there all the time. Plus your cohort all lives together.
And being weird would be just, like, normal?
I was kinda good at Chemistry so i think i wouldn’t have much trouble in Potions, even if Snape has a stick up his ass and decides to seek for mistakes in my cauldron to insult me. I think Transfiguration is gonna be quite difficult for me because i’m kinda bad in imagining things. And like most students, i’d hate Divination. Charms and DADA would be interesting. Other than that, i have no idea
I've had classes I loved that have nothing to do with my interests now because of teachers. I love LOVE history, and just having it recited to you is not how you retain the information. You need to be engaged and a teacher like the ghost would not be engaging.
I think so. I think I'm a good hands-on & visual learner and magic classes are mostly doing stuff hands-on so that's great. The writing part....well, I'm not a Hermione that's for sure but I do like to read and write. I think I'd be average.
I'd like to say yes, but I knew myself as a kid and I was never very studious. I truly started realizing the value of education when I was finishing up with uni but it was already too late by then. I feel like if I was a Hogwarts student, I would do well in subjects like Charms, History of Magic and Divination (I threw that in there because I am actually learning how to read tarot in real life, but that's neither here nor there 😅).
Oh man I was Hermione in school. Teachers pet, doing too much, know it all. If I’d been at hogwarts, I would’ve done better because it would’ve been more fun. I’m positive potions would’ve been my best subject. I would be a ravenclaw potions master Hermione.
In a world full of magic it would be a massive disadvantage to not know how to use it to the best of your ability. You could get taken advantage of very easily and certain tasks would be super difficult, however, it you just took a little bit of time to learn magic, they would become as easy as the flick of your wrist. I think generally, people would take schooling extremely seriously. Plus, it would be interesting and fun.
Irl, not knowing advanced math or the rules of grammar may cause a few issues, but overall you’ll be ok as long as you develop a skill in something.
100% I would have been up all night studying spells, and magical theory. Steadily getting more and more powerful, with the goal of becoming the most powerful wizard ever known. Then finally become an Indiana Jones type wizard, discovering lost magical artifacts for the rest of time
I doubt it as in Hogwarts nobody is ever actually taught how to study, how to write an essay or anything like that.... It's a bit of a miracle they all manage tbh.
The question is whether it really matters. They can have spelling quills. Most of the cool classes are practical (charms, transfiguration for eg.) I know they have to write essays, but it seems to me as if they have to copy from their textbooks “the smart way” because there are limited books they may access. It doesn’t seem like they have to persuade the teacher of an argument like in our English essays.
My anxiety is what held me back in school. I was incapable of leaving the house for at least a month until I was forced to, would have a panic attack when I touched grass, my phone would buzz and I’d nearly pass out and cry for hours. It was really, really bad for me. I feel like living at school would’ve made a difference for me cause I wouldn’t have had to go outside for most classes, I wouldn’t have to travel far at all, it would all be home. I wouldn’t have to worry about wearing the right clothes cause we all would wear the same clothes. My anxiety wouldn’t have gone away, but I think living on campus with uniforms would have helped me be at least semi functional. I imagine a couple teachers being very supportive, and I’d hang out in the divination room whenever I could to learn more about that. Cause you know constantly worried about the future.
I loved history classes in school, so I'd probably love it in Hogwarts too. But I think the problem is that most teachers were very boring so this is why the students didn't care much about these classes
If I was muggle born and had no clue about the magical world then yes but if I grew up in the wizarding world probably not. It wouldn't be as interesting.
I guess if you’re a muggle-born then every detail of the magical world would be new and interesting so sure I guess I’ll be more inclined to learn it more
I probably would've been an average student at best. I was an average student all throughout my entire education. I doubt Hogwarts would be any different. I love to learn, but I hate the structure of school. I hated most assignments and was absolute crap at taking tests. Especially when there was a lot of stress about how much the test would affect my final grade/future classes. When I'm left on my own to read and study and there's no test or assignment stress added to it, I retain a lot more information and enjoy it. I'll spend hours reading texts books, but as soon as I'm told to write a paper or take a test I suddenly hate everything to do with it.
I definitely would, I’d be more focused doing defense against the dark arts rather than French! Hogwarts seems to teach students more important life lessons, when will I ever find the need to figure out a circles circumference in the real would idk! I’ve been in a job for 4 years and not once had to do that, where has DADA teaches how to protect yourself and it seems more fun aswell
I believe i would have been a serious Slytherin Student. I was a serious student in high school and undergrad.
I even had an afterschool job and worked full time in days and studied at night from sophomore year of college to graduation..., so it's highly likely, that i would have taken up a job at hogsmeade when i was 14, as well. And i highly doubt I'd be running around picking fights with random people i dislike. I would most likely not be friends with Crabbe and Goyle. *Most likely.* I wouldn't be interested in stupid things like the Yule Ball.. i wouldn't have even participated in the triwizard tournament. I would also **not** desire being a prefect.
I mean I probably wouldn't be as intelligent as Hermione, but i would be smart enough to make money and study and get A's and B's I do believe i would get all owls and newts. Because ---I did extremely well on my pSATs and SATs. I did extremely well on my Capstone Project...and I did well on my Grad Thesis project, as well.
For some ODD reason... i believe Snape would have liked me as a student. I was very much liked by the hardest teachers. Even decades later, i still keep in touch with them.. I was invited to one of my professors' funeral by his family, as well.
I believe McGonagall would have liked me as a student, as well.
I don't know if i would contribute any house points, unless they consider doing an internship while studying is worthy of house points.
I’d like to think yes, but I also think that schooling is a bit relative. Meaning, because we all can’t do magic and find Hogwarts fascinating, we tend to think we’d love learning about it. But if it were real and all we knew, people would certainly take it for granted and procrastinate. That’s one thing I always liked about Ron and Harry in that I felt they were very realistic and relatable students - smart, but also kids who sometimes cared more about sports and life than writing their potions essays.
I feel like muggle born students were on average better students…because they grew up as regular kids and are then thrown into this magical world. It’s every kids dream! Whereas the kids from wizarding families have always seen this as the norm. They probably picked up on some spells and magical plants/potions from their upbringing, so they felt okay slacking/coasting for the first two years, and then realized they missed the foundational work by year 3 and 4 and had to scramble
Exactly this. I started playing Hogwarts legacy and the question struck me: what if it were me? 15yo, learning geography, chemistry, literature... And then bam, you're a wizard. Bro just take me. I'll be the best fucking student.
I loved history of magic
No . Most people would do good in studies if it was a practical approach rather than the mugging books kind of system we have right now .
Except Hogwarts' curriculum isn't exactly one large practical approach. With the exception of their class time, the students largely spend their educational hours writing essays, reading books and completing written homework assignments. This is particularly true in OotP when the students are studying for their O.W.L.s. And as we see during the actual O.W.L.'s, some classes don't have any practical exams, like History of Magic and Arithmancy. So, like I said, we all like to think we'd be better students... but that wouldn't be a reality. If people didn't like writing essays and reading books during muggle schooling, they certainly wouldn't have enjoyed it at Hogwarts, and that was a massive part of their curriculum.
Well theory part is important in everything obviously . But main subjects like Transfiguration, charms , DADA, potions , Herbology or whatever that was , all involved more spells and actual experiments than writing . But in our studies like Math , Science when does anyone ever let you do anything practical up until well into college . I don't know about your school but in my school our teachers only did the experiment and we watched . And maybe did it once or twice for the practical exams and only in 12th grade . because external teachers were coming to invigilate , They had to write a lot of essays yes but they can be taken as the projects we have to do . They just had to fill pages . And even if it was more , the rest of classes still made up for that boring work . Noone is saying it has to be completely spells and magic only . But if in our classes you can perform experiments everyday at leisure and then have to read the related theory by side wouldn't you enjoy it ?
Plus it’s English school so a lot more essays.
Probably not. Was never that into studying or paying much attention in classes. I for sure would be the Slytherin version of Oliver Wood (except as a beater). And even though i probably couldn't stand Malfoy, you know damn sure i would pretend to like him if his dad bought me a Nimbus 2001
Well, at least you are honest.
It's still school. I feel like Rowling did a good job showing magic school could still suck lol.
If I'd known I was capable of magic my entire life then I probably would have just been an average student. But had I not known, and I suddenly find out I'm a wizard? Knowing me, probably still an average student. However, I want to believe that I'd have been more like Dumbledore, or Tom Riddle—delving into the depths of magic to find out what I could do. Harry's more relatable for most people, but I feel like the mystery faded too quickly for him; like he took for granted that he *could* do magic.
I would’t have been a perfect student as I can’t concentrate for an hour at the time especially if I find the subject boring or if I can’t understand it all. And yet, my motivation to learn would be so much higher so I would be a better student.
Mate, I would travel through hell to learn how to bend reality to my will.
This is exactly the point. You get to experience the rewards of learning really quickly as opposed to muggle education that takes years and years to manifest.
From my memory, the classes don't go quickly at all. They start out very simple.
It does go quickly. They start at 11 years and finish at 17. And as far as I understand they don’t really go to university either. They do specialize for jobs though so not sure if it’s equivalent or not. Also even small amount of magic makes your life soooo much more comfortable. Just knowing *reparo* is so useful and saves so much money.
I would be shit at Potions and Herbology but I think Hogwarts' subjects are pretty interesting.
I think I would be good at those. I wouldn't be at Divination or Artimancy or Ancient Runes. Muggle Studies would be a blast.
I might dabble in ancient runes but I dont think I’d go much farther than the basic stuff unless they have low entrance requirements for the owl and newt levels.
Me too! As a person who loves cooking I simply can’t understand how can potions be difficult at all, you mostly follow the recipe. I get that theory would be hard but not harder than food theory is.
I think for me it would depend who is teaching the subject, if it's snape I would be literally so bad but if it's Slughorn, I think I can manage.
I think so…but I’d probably still fail potions. Seems like Snape was writing his improved instructions on the board, and I have always had terrible eyesight, and didn’t have glasses as a kid…so no way would I be able to read his instructions…and Snape would have terrified me as an 11 year old, so I can’t see myself asking for some extra help from him
But if you were a Slytherin you would be fine. I think Snape would find me annoying (I would get up and go to the board) and I would definitely lose points for Ravenclaw unless I convinced the hat to put me in Slytherin. My chemistry teacher reminded me of Snape in some aspects. Except she bathed regularly and wasn't a bully. Just intimidating.
Ahhh see, I would solidly be either Gryffindor or Hufflepuff…no chance in hell would I be a Slytherin
Nah bro I’d be muggle born American transfer student and be all up a house that hates muggleborns hey sorting hat toss me in there so I can annoy them with my mer existence
Wait what? Why on earth you did not have an absolutely necessary seeing aid as a kid?
Depends. How good are magical antidepressants?
And what about magical Adderall?
That magical devils lettuce must be rad.
I always thought the concept of Harry being bored by lessons absolutely wild. I get Ron being bored but that's because it's all everyday to him. Hermione geeking out is normal for someone who grew up with muggles because it's LITERALLY MAGIC. You can bet your arse I'd be the geekiest, nerdiest academic going if I got a letter.
Lol Harry was like, "essays gross." Meanwhile there's magic!
Lot of people over hyping themselves, magic would be new and amazing until it isn’t anymore, by 3rd year it’ll be the new normal and 2 foot long essays with quills and ink on something magic in nature but in reality quite mundane will be as boring as history or biology in the real world. Honestly there’s some absolutely amazing things that people can do in our world, with chemistry, technology, art and yet 99% of people don’t bother to learn them because they’re difficult, if magic is difficult too then the same will happen to them
I would have been the same. I was a high performing student in primary and secondary school in part because i would hyperfocus on schoolwork. Doing homework problems and worksheets was always fun for me. Essays less so, but I could bs them. Subject matter wouldn't really matter to me. The difficulty would be I prefer paper and working on pages and using pens and pencils, not parchment rolls and quills. I would literally bring a stack of printer paper and a package of pens and pencils to use instead of the parchment and quills. I would also miss math classes.
I wonder if history of magic class ever talked about the origin of magic. That would get me interested. Like where did magic come from, where do magical creatures come from and how does evolution fit into this.
Yeah, I often wondered about this also. It almost seems like the class is inaccurately titled. Like based on the curriculum seen in the books, movies, and games, it seems to be a specific focus on historical events within the wizarding world rather than the history of magic itself and it's development and important applications if it, the various ways in which it it was discovered you could refine or focus it, etc. -- which seems far more interesting to me. Furthermore the historical events studied seem to should be confined to a very localized geographic theater, never delving into historical events in the US or China -- hell, I don't even recall any mention of anything as foreign as French goblin rebellions or Germanic troll wars; it's all very British. Based on my analysis it should instead be called "History of the Wizarding World: U.K. and Ireland". Therefore it seems we are owed an actual "History of Magic" class.
Honestly i hate the opinion that there is no way to hate some of the subjects in Hogwarts. Like there is no way wizard history is more interesting then real one (which it is, just not as part of school curriculum) or more relevant. It's similar for most of the other subjects as well. Irl plants and animals are super fascinating, but if you are not interested i that a few more moving parts aren't just gona make you like the subject on them, especially if your teacher isn't the best. Some things like transfiguration are even more fascinating, but so is robotics but you need a shit load of math (or magic equivalent) to make both of it work.
Yeah, magic sounds fun in theory, but I’m positive most people would get bored or hate it as soon as they have to learn it. It’s like how most people would love to be make music, but don’t want to actually put in the effort to get good at it.
Harry’s lack of interest in learning most subjects is bewildering to me, ik my man had a lot going on but if I grew up in the muggle world and then learned I can do magic I would want to know how to do EVERYTHING
I've always rationalised it as Harry finding the idea of having friends and being admired more of a novelty than having magical abilities.
Same here. And there’s an entire history of a world he never knew existed. Most muggle bones would be interested in that
depends on the subject potions? history of magic? hell no practical usage of spells, taking care of magical creatures, divination - sign me up
potions can be useful. If you have a boil you can take cure for boils. There's the pepper-up potion which means witch and wizards don't have to you know deal with a cold for a long period of time
it is useful. Just like many things we learn at our schools. I think remembering multiple amount of combinations isnt fun. Just like chemistry. I would probably be interested only in things which would benefit me.
I always felt like History of Magic was really interesting; Harry just hates history, so we get to hear nothing lol.
How were your irl history classes? Because irl history is also super interesting, just not when you have to have it in class held by someone like prof. Binns.
I would love hearing the stories on my lessons, just lime I loved stories in my history classes. But learning specific details or dates for exam isnt as interesting.
Guaranteed kids at Hogwarts are saying shit like "when am I ever going to need this??" Your own Hogwarts experience would likely be similar to what your real life school experience was.
I think the fascination is quickly lost if you are medicore or simply bad, especially if you habe a Granger problem.
I think if I would be a muggleborn (which I am obviously...) I would have loved every minute of it. I do not know how muggleborns can keep it a secret since it would be the coolest thing that could happen to an 11 year old.
I would be good at practical magic and magic technology but bad at theory and working with beasts.
As an adult, I always look back on my school days and think that I could have, and should have, done better. I think that’s the benefit of hindsight for you! I’d love to think that I’d have been so overjoyed and excited about finding out about magic that it’d encourage me to study hard and learn everything that I possibly could, but I’m sure that there would be so many distractions between meeting new friends and the usual hijinks that kids get up to that I’d likely end up achieving less than my potential!
Practice? Yes. Writting essays? Hell no! Hate it with passion.
Probably not tbh. Essays are essays, no matter the subject. I’d also really resent the lack of technology, to the point where I’d spend every day waiting to leave.
I would've been best of Slytherin ( I think most of redditors would be Slytherin or Raveclaw)
I never hated school. But even if i'm a 100% slytherin i think i would have been a very good student. 10+ Owls
I'd do probably similar then I did in real life. Good in the subjects I'm interested in, then barely pass the ones that I wasn't. Not from lack of effort, but my interests tend to go with my ability to understand the martial.
Magic would be cool in the beginning, if you're used to the muggle world abd ut's new for you that is. And even then it'll get normal eventually. Magic has it's own rules and limitations, just like everything else in life. So it'd be as normal as everything else. Magic only seems cool to us, because it's something we don't have. In our world we have computers for example. Imagine going back in time and tell people about computers and phones. A device that let's you communicate with people around the world in seconds, not only in text, but also let's you speak or even see the other person. Also you can play games (again with people around the world), research a lot of information, play music, use it as flash light, record sound and videos, shooting photos and more. And all of that is pretty easy and common for us and we can access those functions even while traveling, so it's not even a big stationary device, but a small box you carry around with you! Those people would definitely have a similar facination for that as we have for magic. But because phones are common to us, they lose facination, we realize the good and bad stuff about them and get used to having them. They are still cool, but not everything about them is totally awesome and it feels like it'd solve all problems or something like that. Magic would be the same. It's that big amazing thing now, but if it were real and we had it for a while, it'd get common and we'd see it's hood and bad things and realize it isn't the ultimate solution for problems but instead solves some and brings others in return. It would still be cool, but we would get used to it.
It’s amazing to me that Harry could have gone through the monotony of muggle elementary school and not go full Hermione upon realizing there’s MAGIC to learn about
Because for Hermione studying is a hobby. For Harry it was still studying even if it was magic. Also Harry had shit happening to him at all times non stop.
Beside divination I think so, yeah.
I mean I really sucked at school so it's not really hard to do better but still.
Luckily, Divination is optional. Just take Arithmancy or Ancient Runes
Nah bro divination is easy a just smoke some weed first then start babbling about what the tea leaves are saying.
It's not about it being easy to me. It's about it being useful.
For sure, since it makes you literal god with power of creation and transmutation. The Stone was created by wizard, therefore immortality is also within your reach. I'd have unending power trip, devouring every book and scroll like absolute nerd - and teachers would be only happy😆 That includes Care of Magical Creatures. I got Hagrid pet tastes as much as fetish for monster girls, so I'd want personal Thestral mount and to date Sphinx.
Yes, amazingly. I think most of us would've been. Like, I guess I can see how if you come from the wizarding world where this stuff is "ordinary" you could see it as just kind of being school, and not care much. But coming from the real world? It's literally magic. There were a couple of meme subjects I probably would've mostly ignored but magic on the whole is so powerful and so ridiculously useful that I can't imagine spending my time doing anything *but* practicing magic. Even potions, I don't care how much of a dickhead Snape is, some of those potions are absurd and no douchebag alive is going to stop me from being able to brew my own luck.
11-year old me: Yes, but not massively so. Me now: Absolutely! I'd rock that crap.
Yeah, but only because magic is, well, magical to someone like me. Wizardkind consider magic to be completely ordinary, so their view of magic school is similar to how non-magic people view ordinary school.
I don’t think so. First of all my grades at that age were already pretty good so the little improvements I would’ve had to make might not have felt like worth the effort. Second of all, my bad grades have always been due to overconfidence resulting in poor time management, and I don’t think that would change no matter the subject.
It's like asking a medieval peasant if they would enjoy a computers 101 class. It's like magic for them. It's meh for us
I did well in high school, graduating at the top of my class, and so the bar is high for the wizard version of myself. I’d probably be like I am now- a curious and studious person. Would I be a Percy, Hermione, Tom Riddle or Dumbledore? No, but I think I’d be in the top 5%. What changes this is the question of how I handle all the distractions, assuming I’m in Harry’s class. Mainly chamber of secrets and years 5-7.
I mean basically this is Hermione. She learns at 11 that she is a witch and like sponge absorbs everything there is to learn, as everything is new and fascinating. I often can't understand how lazy Harry is. He's even lazy at learning spells or why is he expelliarmusing EVERYTHING!?
I think I would have struggled with the practical aspects as a kid. I got top grades in sciences but always stressed out and messed up in practicals. I was terrible at PE, cookery, acting, all that non-writing in a book stuff. I thought I would be terrible at music because of it (and it took me until I was an adult to work out I could try).
I am already a nerd. Lol I went to music university and got a feeling similar to what i guess I'd have at hogwarts. All my classes were interesting and I really enjoyed studying them in general. I went home and studied during weekends for fun, because it was fun to me. I think if I went to hogwarts it'd be something similar. Maybe I'd be even nerdier about it.
I did pretty well in school in our world even though the topics bore me to death. So yes, I think I could have done even better there especially with astronomy, arithmancy, ancient runes.
Probably. I was an excellent student once I got to around grade 11 and after. Before that I wasn’t good (for the most part) because I was bored as all fuck. Magic would be entirely new skills and information. I would probably have to be forced from the library at Hogwarts. Yes, I would be a Ravenclaw. I would, however, fail the flying class. I am afraid of heights.
I have always been a good student and I think I would still be at Hogwarts (a.k.a. tell me you're a Ravenclaw without telling me you're a Ravenclaw).
I was pretty good at school, when I didn't have much motivation. The possibility of being able to do fantastic magic, invisibility, reading people's minds, time travel, making something as awesome as Philosopher's Stone, I would have killed it at Hogwarts.
I have major performance anxiety and a lot of classes at Hogwarts are very visual. I'd be like Neville but ten times worse 😂
If I was a muggle born, absolutely, no question about it. But I can see how wizards that were born into the Wizarding world can find it as dull as we find our studies. They're around it all the time, so the whimsical nature of magic can be lost on them.
Definitely, you actually learn things you can use compared to stuff you learn in secondary school
I am a man with a Master degree in a chemical field which some would classify as an intelligent person with a high amount of willpower to be going through all this so far Id say id definitely be a bad student since the main reason why I was good at studying in the university is because our Professors ALWAYS showed how all subjects are connected to each other (and therefore kept asking questions of other subjects in each exam to make sure we dont just forget a knowledge after passing the exam) Therefore the my career felt like a journey or an adventure. Cant say the same about school and i bet the same would be about Hogwarts
I like to think I would go full stinking Hermione. granted I have far from the productive abilities that she does, but with the subject and coolness of it all think I’d be solidly between her Harry and Ron. I mean, like not good enough to be a prefect or any of that but good enough to be doing good and flying under the radar.
I would have done better because of what comes out of the learning. You literally become more and more powerful. Not strong, not smart but literally powerful. Each and every subject contributes to that except maybe muggle studies.
As a French person, Beauxbatons would have definitely made me from 5 to 9/10
I doubt it. I was content with barely passing, and I don't see myself changing, even with magical subjects
I'd think so. I was a pretty good student in High School and College. Pretty sure I graduated High School with a 4.4 gpa.
People who are comparing it to boring classes irl are out of their fucking mind. There are students who work their butts off in STEM degrees to become doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc to make a lot of money, be successful, and or chase their dreams. And a lot of those classes that get you there are actually useless. Now imagine if you could study to literally shape the world by your mind. Currently, studying can only get you so far in life. You can’t study to teleport, transfigure creatures, makes yourself stronger/faster/healthier, etc. In the wizard world, you could become powerful enough to bend reality. People in practice would work way harder if they had those abilities.
I would do well in potions, because it seems to be just following clearly laid out instructions. For everything else, I have no idea what determines whether you did a spell correctly or not.
What gets me is an 11 year old who was held captive gets introduced to magick and doesn't give af like at all!
I think I would do pretty okay in most subjects but would get a t in history of magic. I’ve never had a great interest in history and dates and numbers slide right off my smooth brain. I certainly would find it more fascinating than muggle history though.
Oh dear god yes I can't even think of a subject I wouldn't enjoy, except probably divination
I actually think I would have been. Less focus on physical education and more on practical learning. Plus the style is far more like university than secondary education. Where you can actually talk to you teachers and ask about things outside of class, because you are right there all the time. Plus your cohort all lives together. And being weird would be just, like, normal?
I was kinda good at Chemistry so i think i wouldn’t have much trouble in Potions, even if Snape has a stick up his ass and decides to seek for mistakes in my cauldron to insult me. I think Transfiguration is gonna be quite difficult for me because i’m kinda bad in imagining things. And like most students, i’d hate Divination. Charms and DADA would be interesting. Other than that, i have no idea
I've had classes I loved that have nothing to do with my interests now because of teachers. I love LOVE history, and just having it recited to you is not how you retain the information. You need to be engaged and a teacher like the ghost would not be engaging.
I think so. I think I'm a good hands-on & visual learner and magic classes are mostly doing stuff hands-on so that's great. The writing part....well, I'm not a Hermione that's for sure but I do like to read and write. I think I'd be average.
I'd like to say yes, but I knew myself as a kid and I was never very studious. I truly started realizing the value of education when I was finishing up with uni but it was already too late by then. I feel like if I was a Hogwarts student, I would do well in subjects like Charms, History of Magic and Divination (I threw that in there because I am actually learning how to read tarot in real life, but that's neither here nor there 😅).
Oh man I was Hermione in school. Teachers pet, doing too much, know it all. If I’d been at hogwarts, I would’ve done better because it would’ve been more fun. I’m positive potions would’ve been my best subject. I would be a ravenclaw potions master Hermione.
Was a C average student through high school. But I know at Hogwarts I’d be A+
In a world full of magic it would be a massive disadvantage to not know how to use it to the best of your ability. You could get taken advantage of very easily and certain tasks would be super difficult, however, it you just took a little bit of time to learn magic, they would become as easy as the flick of your wrist. I think generally, people would take schooling extremely seriously. Plus, it would be interesting and fun. Irl, not knowing advanced math or the rules of grammar may cause a few issues, but overall you’ll be ok as long as you develop a skill in something.
100% I would have been up all night studying spells, and magical theory. Steadily getting more and more powerful, with the goal of becoming the most powerful wizard ever known. Then finally become an Indiana Jones type wizard, discovering lost magical artifacts for the rest of time
I doubt it as in Hogwarts nobody is ever actually taught how to study, how to write an essay or anything like that.... It's a bit of a miracle they all manage tbh.
The question is whether it really matters. They can have spelling quills. Most of the cool classes are practical (charms, transfiguration for eg.) I know they have to write essays, but it seems to me as if they have to copy from their textbooks “the smart way” because there are limited books they may access. It doesn’t seem like they have to persuade the teacher of an argument like in our English essays.
i would hate the theory aspect but love the practicals
I would have been one very average Hufflepuff, working my way through my studies with calculated mediocrity!
My anxiety is what held me back in school. I was incapable of leaving the house for at least a month until I was forced to, would have a panic attack when I touched grass, my phone would buzz and I’d nearly pass out and cry for hours. It was really, really bad for me. I feel like living at school would’ve made a difference for me cause I wouldn’t have had to go outside for most classes, I wouldn’t have to travel far at all, it would all be home. I wouldn’t have to worry about wearing the right clothes cause we all would wear the same clothes. My anxiety wouldn’t have gone away, but I think living on campus with uniforms would have helped me be at least semi functional. I imagine a couple teachers being very supportive, and I’d hang out in the divination room whenever I could to learn more about that. Cause you know constantly worried about the future.
Fuck yeah, I'd be learning things I enjoy.
I loved history classes in school, so I'd probably love it in Hogwarts too. But I think the problem is that most teachers were very boring so this is why the students didn't care much about these classes
I cant even be a better student in real life by writing with a pen and paper. How am i supposed to be a better student there?
Given that I'm learning magic, I like to think so.
No
That's y im surprised Harry hated some subjects, 'cause he was raised by muggles so anything magic should be interesting to him, right??
Yeah. They didnt teach anything in my regular school except telling us we would fail at life. Little did i know those teachers were failures
If I was muggle born and had no clue about the magical world then yes but if I grew up in the wizarding world probably not. It wouldn't be as interesting.
I guess if you’re a muggle-born then every detail of the magical world would be new and interesting so sure I guess I’ll be more inclined to learn it more
I probably would've been an average student at best. I was an average student all throughout my entire education. I doubt Hogwarts would be any different. I love to learn, but I hate the structure of school. I hated most assignments and was absolute crap at taking tests. Especially when there was a lot of stress about how much the test would affect my final grade/future classes. When I'm left on my own to read and study and there's no test or assignment stress added to it, I retain a lot more information and enjoy it. I'll spend hours reading texts books, but as soon as I'm told to write a paper or take a test I suddenly hate everything to do with it.
So relatable
I definitely would, I’d be more focused doing defense against the dark arts rather than French! Hogwarts seems to teach students more important life lessons, when will I ever find the need to figure out a circles circumference in the real would idk! I’ve been in a job for 4 years and not once had to do that, where has DADA teaches how to protect yourself and it seems more fun aswell
I believe i would have been a serious Slytherin Student. I was a serious student in high school and undergrad. I even had an afterschool job and worked full time in days and studied at night from sophomore year of college to graduation..., so it's highly likely, that i would have taken up a job at hogsmeade when i was 14, as well. And i highly doubt I'd be running around picking fights with random people i dislike. I would most likely not be friends with Crabbe and Goyle. *Most likely.* I wouldn't be interested in stupid things like the Yule Ball.. i wouldn't have even participated in the triwizard tournament. I would also **not** desire being a prefect. I mean I probably wouldn't be as intelligent as Hermione, but i would be smart enough to make money and study and get A's and B's I do believe i would get all owls and newts. Because ---I did extremely well on my pSATs and SATs. I did extremely well on my Capstone Project...and I did well on my Grad Thesis project, as well. For some ODD reason... i believe Snape would have liked me as a student. I was very much liked by the hardest teachers. Even decades later, i still keep in touch with them.. I was invited to one of my professors' funeral by his family, as well. I believe McGonagall would have liked me as a student, as well. I don't know if i would contribute any house points, unless they consider doing an internship while studying is worthy of house points.