Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles by Wilhelm Wigworthy

 

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Title: Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles 

Author: Wilhelm Wigworthy

Publisher: Not known 

Source book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (Harry Potter #3)

Right. Year 3 for Harry and co, or Upper 4 for me and my friends. They start with, you guessed, The Standard Book of Spells Grade 3 by Miranda Goshawk.

Also on their reading list this year are Broken Balls: When Fortunes Turn Foul, 

Death Omens: What to Do When You Know the Worst is Coming (is this really suitable for schoolchildren?)

 Fowl or Foul A Study of Hippogriff Brutality, 

Handbook of Do-It-Yourself Broomcare, 

Handbook of Hippogriff Psychology, 

Intermediate Transfiguration,

The Monster Book of Monsters,

Numerology and Grammatica,

Predicting the Unpredictable: Insulate Yourself Against Shocks,

Sites of Historical Sorcery, all with no author given, 

and finally Unfogging the Future by Cassandra Vablatsky. I wonder if she might be related to the famous and deeply weird Madame Vlabatsky? 

Of course, Harry has realised that no one in the Wizarding world has the faintest idea about how Muggles live or indeed anything about them. So he really only needs to read Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles for the entertainment value. The misleading “facts” it contains might come up in an exam, so perhaps he needs to pay attention after all. 

Considering how many pupils at Hogwarts come from Muggle, or part Muggle backgrounds, it is rather staggering how little the Wizarding world seems to know about them.

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