The Domino Effect (A Harry Potter Fanfiction)

CHAPTER 29: Wizarding Studies and Blood Status

While Muggle Studies started with an interesting topic regarding the space race and space exploration, the Wizarding Studies were more subdued and too formal. Wizarding studies are relatively new in Hogwarts as nobody thought about the importance of such a subject. While the focus is on understanding the culture and how those who are muggle-borns and muggle raised have to integrate into magical society there really wasn't a clear standard on what the subject should entail. If you ask the muggle-borns, they were a little bit like the sociology class. However, due to the concepts and information shared being closer to history, the teacher that was hired must have a background in magical history.

The teacher for this class is Professor Elanora Tripe, though as a wife of a noble lord she would have been referred to as Madam. She is over 50 years old and the widower of the noble house of Tripe. She is a thin woman but she looked like a typical governess you see who takes care of the children of the wealthy during the 1800s. Her hair is always tied in a neat brown bun and she has deep brown eyes. Professor Tripe is a Slytherin graduate and has a mastery of magical history which always surprises people as it is incredibly rare for most to even continue with the subject with Binns as the teacher let alone get a mastery of it.

She was not exactly the one person that Dumbledore wanted to be part of this subject. In fact, during the process, he was against it. Dumbledore still has some hiring power regarding which teachers should be hired but he couldn't say no when Lord Peverell recommended this woman. The reason Dumbledore didn't want her is that she is known in the pure blood society circle and she in the past was a popular teacher hired to teach the many old and dark pureblood families regarding etiquette. The last thing he wanted is for the muggle-borns to be bullied or to be felt inferior.

Madam Tripe is also the teacher that many rich wizarding families reached out to teach their children etiquette so she is very familiar with the old wizarding families like the Malfoy's, Parkinson's, and so on. Her classroom is neat, tidy, and well organized. The furniture looked old but also expensive which screams class when a student enters the room. A typical pureblood noble would feel at home here, and others would feel intimidated. They don't have a desk just a long elegant table in the middle where they all sit together as if they are in a conference with Madam Tripe at the other end of the table. The only thing missing to fit this atmosphere is if the woman would drink a glass of wine. The only students who did not feel uneasy with the atmosphere of the classroom were Harry, Iris, and surprisingly, Justin.

Harry is the only Slytherin in the class and he sat next to his sister at the table. In Hufflepuff, there is Iris, Justin Finch-Fletchley a muggle-born, and Megan Jones, a half-blood. Megan mumbled about how she didn't think she needed this class as she grew up in the wizarding world but having a muggle mother meant she has to take this. The Jones is a noble house but they are not an ancient one and Megan's family isn't exactly the main family just one of the branches.

In the Ravenclaws, Anthony Goldstein is a half-blood and his father is a muggle. This surprises Harry as the Goldsteins were a famous wizarding family back in the United States so there are muggle and magical branches in this family it would seem. Anthony grew up with his father since his mother died when he was young and while his father is aware of magic, he has magical grandparents to help with his magic. The other two are Lisa Turpin, a muggle-born, and Sue Li, who is another half-blood who has a muggle mother. Sue Li was raised in the wizarding world but grew up most of her life in China before moving to Great Britain. The Gryffindors are Hermione Granger and Dean Thomas, both muggle-born, and Seamus Finnegan, who has a muggle father. Seamus didn't expect to like this class mostly because when his mother read the curriculum, she almost got mad at it. That's when he learned that most of the curriculum is related to "all things those dark and old pure-blood families learn!" as his mother said.