In the Harry potter series, 13 subjects are mentioned but there may be more. These subjects are divided into two types, core subjects and electives. The core subject are compulsory and must be completed by everyone until year 6, after the owls. These subjects are taken with members from your house and the members of another house, the other house could be different every subject. There are 8 core subjects at hogwarts and they are –
# Defence against the dark arts-the study of defence spells and magic aiming to teach the student to protect themselves against other wizards/witches and magical creatures. It should be noted voldemort cursed this position so a teacher could not last more then 1 year after he didn’t get the job.
# potions- the study of adding ingredient and cooking liquidsto make brews with magical qualities. taught by snape till Harry’s 6th year when taken over by Professor Horace Slughorn.
# charms- learning spells and incataions to manipulates things, ranging from objects to craetures. Taught by proffessor Flitwick.
# transfiguration- the art of tranforming oneself or an object into something else. This includes vanishment and the changing of appearance. Taught by proffesor Mcgonagall, succesor to Dumbledore.
# astronomy- the study of the stars and planets and there patterns and taught by Professor Sinistra.
# herbology – the study of magical flora including there properties, uses and how to care for them. The profferor is Professor Pomona Sprout
# history of magic – the history of magic itself ranginf from medieval wars to the first ever witches and wizards and the creation of hogwarts school and the development of magical subjects. Taught by the ghost of proffesor binns.
# flying (1st years only) madam hooch tewaches students how to fly. This is not continued after 1st year.
The Elective subjects at Hogwarts are supposedly quite numerous. There are 5 elective subjects mentioned in the book. Harry and Ron take part in two of these and Hermione has done all of them but dropped out of two (divination and muggle studies). Elective subjects are taken from year 3 and up and a minimum of two must be taken. They may be dropped after the OWLS.
# Care of magical creatures- the subject which teaches the students how to care for magical creatures and uses for the mmagical creatures. The teacher of this subject after year 3 is Rubeas Hagrid.
# Divination – the art of seeing into the future taught by professor trelawney.
# Arithmancy – the study of advanced number patterns.
# Muggle studies – the study of muggles (us) from a magical perspective.
