Random trivia

You're right - the source is wrong.  Hermione only got 10 OWLs.  The 11 from the first couple editions is incorrect.  Hermione only took 10 classes after her third year and the line was famously the only corrected line in later editions.  Can you name all 12 of Hogwarts's subjects?
 
Arithmancy
Care for Magical Creatures
Charms
Defence against the Dark Arts
Divination
History of Magic
Transfiguration
Ancient Runes (not sure about this one, I might remember wrong)
Potions
Herbology
Muggle Studies
English  :P

11 + one fake, because I didn't remember 12.  Inside a spoiler box in case someone else wants to try.
 
Sure, the one you missed is the one that is usually missed - it's only mentioned twice in the entire series to the best of my knowledge.  Once in passing in the first book, and it has a major role during the OWL examination in the 5th book.
 
The other one is Astronomy.

I find it very irresponsible of Hogwarts that they have no sports lessons. Pupils don't do any exercise, unless they're in a Quidditch team, and even then they're only sitting on a broom. Taking in to account too the lavish meals which are often described in the books, I'm suprised that obesity among Hogwarts students is not a more prominent issue in the series.
 
They did give flying lessons.

But when you consider the method by which the students are fed, you are correct.  However, please also ponder that it is a multistory castle with classes from the dungeons to the tops of the towers, and there are no elevators.
 
LooseCannon said:
They did give flying lessons.

But when you consider the method by which the students are fed, you are correct.  However, please also ponder that it is a multistory castle with classes from the dungeons to the tops of the towers, and there are no elevators.
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True, but with the number of shortcuts and the like, I doubt the pupils are going to be getting their recommended 10,000 steps a day.  Tighter government controls is required to ensure that no school, no matter how exceptional (and I'd say a few murders is quite exceptional) slips out of the obligatory amount of exercise each pupil needs every week. -_-

Besides, running from Maverick You-Know-Who gives the buggers quite enough leg-stretching...and that's not to mention the eyebrow-raising exercises! :P
 
"True, but with the number of shortcuts and the like, I doubt the pupils are going to be getting their recommended 10,000 steps a day.  Tighter government controls is required to ensure that no school, no matter how exceptional (and I'd say a few murders is quite exceptional) slips out of the obligatory amount of exercise each pupil needs every week."

I hope you're not suggesting a No Wizard Left Behind policy.
 
If this question is considered answered (is it?), I'll ask a new one.

When the Abbasids founded a new capital in Central Mesopotamia in the mid-8th century, they gave it the name of Baġdād, which is Persian for "God-given" or "God's gift". It was, however, also given an Arab byname which is nowadays all but forgotten. What was it, and what does it mean in English?
 
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