Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Muggle Studies

Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic
Muggle Studies
Type	Subject
Features	Wizarding view of Muggle life
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Overview

Muggle Studies, an optional course, is the Wizarding view of how Muggles live, and the techniques they use to circumvent their lack of magic.

Extended Description

This course is apparently taught by Charity Burbage for the first six years that Harry is in school. The course, specifically designed to teach Wizards how to get along with Muggles. will be required for any Wizarding career which involves liaison with Muggles. including, almost certainly, Ministry jobs.

After Professor Burbage's disappearance, it is taught by a Death Eater, Alecto Carrow, under whose guidance the course seems to have become a diatribe against Muggles, in the best propaganda tradition, teaching how non-Magical people are dirty and behave like animals.

Hermione takes this course in her third year at Hogwarts. As Hermione is Muggle-born, it seems unlikely that she would need to learn about Muggles; but it seems her intent is to learn about how Wizards see and interact with Muggles, rather than to learn about Muggles as such. At the end of this year, despite achieving a mark of over three hundred percent for the course, she decides to drop the course so as to have a humanly possible course load.