Clélie :)'s List: Harry Potter

• The Sorting Hat claims that blood purity is a factor in  selecting Slytherins, although this is not mentioned until the fifth book. There  is no reason to believe, however, that Muggle-born students are not sorted  there, merely that pure-blooded students are more desirable to that house, as  there are several examples of half-bloods in the house.
• Transfiguration, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Charms, Potions, Astronomy,  History of Magic, and Herbology are compulsory subjects for the first five  years.
• add at least two optional subjects to their syllabus for the start of the third  year.
• Examples of detention include the one imposed on Harry by Umbridge in Order  of the Phoenix. In this case, Harry was forced to write, "I must not tell  lies" repeatedly using a magical quill which then carves what is written into  the back of the writer's hand.
• when Harry was caught on using the Sectumsempra curse on Malfoy by Snape, he was  forced to go through over a thousand boxes of files describing wrongdoers at  Hogwarts and their punishments. Harry was supposed to order them in alphabetical  order, and rewrite the cards whose words are hard to see or otherwise damaged.
• using magic in the presence of Muggles, a serious offence
• facing suspension for being out of bounds while they are in the Shrieking Shack

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