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Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? (leminal.space)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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He was abducted by Hagrid when he turned 11 so that would place him maybe around the fifth or sixth grade.

I don't know if canonically there are math classes at Hogwarts.

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[+] Phegan@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure they explicitly talk about those kind of classes in the books. They don't have scenes in them, but I remember Ron and Harry complaining about arithmetic, or mathematics, or something like that.

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[–] beefcat@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago*

"Arithmancy" is what they call their math disciplines and it's mentioned a fair bit in the books, though understandably never really shown in the movies.

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Using OP logic, none of these kids ever go to the bathroom either.

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[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They do in the Chamber of Secrets.

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