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The trio finishing their History of Magic homework
Homework is usually assigned to students at the end of classes or at the end of the school term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is usually completed by students in the: Study Hall, Study Area, Library, Gryffindor Tower Reading Room, or another Common Room.
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Known homework at Hogwarts
First year
- Potions: To collect asphodel, dittany and wiggentreebark in order to brew the Wiggenweld Potion the following lesson.[1]
Second year
- History of Magic: To write an essay about the Medieval Assembly of European Wizards.[2]
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: To write a poem about Gilderoy Lockhart's defeat of the Wagga Wagga Werewolf.[3]
- Potions: Something that involves Hair-Raising Potions.[4]
Third year
- History of Magic: To write an essay about Medieval witch burnings to be handed in at the beginning of the school year.[5]
- Potions: To write an essay on Shrinking Solutions[5] and Undetectable Poisons,[6] to collect the ingredients for the Wiggenweld Potion, to collect the ingredients for the Antidote to Uncommon Poisons, and to collect the ingredients for the Girding Potion.[7]
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: To write an essay on werewolves (assigned by Severus Snape during his substitution),[8] and to write an essay on vampires.[9]
- Muggle Studies: To read Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles and to write an essay about why Muggles need electricity.[6]
Fourth year
- Charms: To read three books about Summoning Charms.[10]
- History of Magic: To write essays about Goblin Rebellions.[10]
- Divination: To produce a detailed star chart which details how planetary movements affect the individual student's fate.[11][10]
- Transfiguration: To write an essay on Cross-Species Transfiguration.[12]
- Care of Magical Creatures: To go to Hagrid´s hut and make notes about the Blast-Ended Skrewt's behaviour.[10]
Fifth year
- Transfiguration: To practise Vanishing Spells and an essay on the Inanimatus Conjurus Spell.[13]
- Potions: To write an essay on the properties of Moonstone and its uses in Potion making[14], venom antidotes[15] and to write an essay on how to properly brew Strengthening Solution (Harry Potter only).[16]
- Astronomy: To label a star chart of Jupiter and its moons and to write an essay on Jupiter's moons.[13]
- Care of Magical Creatures: To label the drawing of a Bowtruckle.[17]
- Divination: To keep a dream diary.[14]
- Herbology: To write an essay on self-fertilising shrubs.[13]
- History of Magic: To find four talking gargoyles at Hogwarts Castle[18] and to write a long essay on Giant Wars.[14]
Sixth year
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: To write an essay on the defence against Dementors and to write an essay on the Imperius Curse.[19]
- Potions: To write an essay on Everlasting Elixirs.[20]
- Transfiguration: To write an essay on the Principles of Re-Materialisation.[21]
- Charms: To practise the Water-Making Spell.[22]
- Arithmancy: To write an essay (unknown topic).[23][20]
See also
Appearances
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
Notes and references
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 9 (The Writing on the Wall)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 10 (The Rogue Bludger)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 13 (The Very Secret Diary)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 (Owl Post)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 12 (The Patronus)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 9 (Grim Defeat)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 14 (Snape's Grudge)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 15 (Beauxbatons and Durmstrang)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 13 (Mad-Eye Moody)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 21 (The House-Elf Liberation Front)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 14 (Percy and Padfoot)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 12 (Professor Umbridge)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 15 (The Hogwarts High Inquisitor)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 17 (Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 13 (Detention with Dolores)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 21 (The Unknowable Room)
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 15 (The Unbreakable Vow)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 10 (The House of Gaunt)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 11 (Hermione's Helping Hand)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince)
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