Closed muggle vs magic: round one

Finley looked at Angelo and shrugged, honestly he wasn’t sure of all the differences, but he was going to try anyway. It wasn’t like he was an expert on what was different, he just knew sort of most of what he knew about the wizarding world. He didn’t spend a lot of time in the muggle world to be honest, even though his mother was a muggle teacher, it just sort of worked out this way because his dad, of course, was a healer and he lived with his dad in Brightstone. Not far from St Mungo’s. “Well, the article is supposed to compare, I guess, so muggle vs magical classes kind of works, but yeah no I wouldn’t say we don’t have science, or english and maths, well, I mean we sort of learn latin, with spells, and we learn english just in passing I guess, from like History of Magic sort of, and for science we have potions, and herbology and astronomy, care of magical creatures and some places also have alchemy which is basically like super magical science. My mum is a muggle teacher so I know some of it.” He explained, writing down some notes in the book so they could go over them later for the article.

@Angelo Dela Cruz​

Since Angelo had been learning a lot of different... differences between the wizarding and normal people - muggles, they'd call it - he'd asked Finley that perhaps it was best for them to start writing it down. Just so people like him - like Angelo - who was so new to this world would have some help just like him and so they would know as well that someone was just as confused as they were. Which is how he and Finley had ended up in the Student Lounge, the Gryffindor sat on the couch while Angelo was settled comfortably on the floor, notebook on the coffee table he'd pulled towards him so he could write more easily while he leaned against Finley's legs for comfort. He wrote most of what Finley was saying though it was still confusing. "Don't you like ano need to learn grammar for the English, kasi we've been writing so many essays. I don't think I been doing very good in some of them, I got an A in one of the homeworks," he said frowning. "And did I cut the Math class? I don't remember going this year." Angelo didn't think he'd missed it in his schedule. "I guess the science is weird kasi, I mean because, we've been uh we've been studying the bones and the body in the last two years? Like where is your kidney, what does your lungs does and, how many bones is there in your toes?" he tilted his head at his notes in thought, biting the end of the pen. "Like... I don't think we have botany and zoology in elementary and highschool. Maybe college? But the Astronomy we have, though we don't take that at night. Night is for being at home and bedtime." That had been weird. Being required to be up late in the night for class, and it was such a huge adjustment too.​

Finley listened to what Angelo was saying, tapping his quill against the parchment as he thought about it. “Yeah, we probably should have grammar,” he could agree with that he supposed, but he also grew up without this stuff, so he wasn’t entirely sure to be honest. “I guess they just expect us to pick it up while we’re writing essays all the time. And you’re doing fine, getting an A’s pretty good!” he added, since acceptable was above the bare minimum and anything about the bare minimum was good, right? His dad seemed okay with his grades after all, and he had more than on A. He didn’t even have any O’s, but he had mostly EE’s and he thought that was pretty good too. Angelo probably had better grades than him. Not that he was surprised about that. “But no, you didn’t miss math class. We just… don’t really have it. Not properly. I guess they figure stuff like Arithmancy covers it if you want to learn magical math, but it’s optional.” He quickly made a bit of a note of that in the margins, so that they could come back to it later.

Finley took a couple more notes as Angelo made his own notes, he was hoping they could write the article mostly by comparing what they were writing down, see what they thought was the most important of each others notes, he felt like that was the best way to do this, not that he was good at working out what was important, he kind of just went with the flow for the most part. “Yeah, what you’re describing sounds like what we get a little bit in Healing classes later, if you take them. Or in like… some of the advanced potions stuff? But yeah, I think muggle schools probably do way more of that early on. And you’re right - botany’s kind of like herbology and zoology’s a bit like Care of Magical Creatures. We just mix it all in with magic from the start.” They didn’t really have healing classes perse, but it was around their upper years, maybe fifth that people wanting to be healers would normally start looking to work with the hospital wing so they could get some experience before they get up to working at St Mungo’s. “But yeah, Astronomy at night is kind of brutal, I hate having to stay up for it, I rather sleep honestly.”​

Angelo looked at Finley with all the shock of a kid who'd never gotten a final grade of below 88% in his whole academic life. He was so not doing good. If his mother ever got a hold of some of his essays and found out that he was just barely passing some of them? Oh no. That would not be good at all. "Wetwetwetwetwet so you don't study the body at all?" Angelo asked bewildered. He'd just been about to enter sixth grade when he was whisked to study magic so he'd just studied like respiratory and circulatory and reproductive systems - he shuddered just remembering all the things he'd had to memorize. And that wasn't even the whole year. This whole semester thing was still tripping him up. Also Healing classes kinda sounded like something they'd do at church. "So aaahh we get first aid classes later on? What year is that taken?" he said as he scribbled another note in his notebook.

*Wait wait wait wait wait​

Finley wasn’t sure where the confusion was coming from, but he blinked at Angelo and shrugged. “You look like I told you we eat our textbooks for breakfast,” he was sure some people might have tried that before, but he definitely wasn’t one of them and his dad wasn’t the right healer for that. He nudged Angelo slightly with his knee where his shoulders was leaning against him. “No, we do study the body. I mean, not like… full-on science class style, not unless you’re going into healing. Then yeah, you get proper stuff like anatomy and magical first aid and all that. But only really if you like, check in with the Hospital Wing or something, it’s not generally something people need, we have potions for almost everything - break a finger? Potion. Split lip? Potion. Cramps? Potion - so it’s not really necessary to know all that stuff.” He was trying to clarify but he feared he might have been making it worse. “We don’t get proper first aid like I think you mean, not like a whole subject, unless maybe in Muggle Studies? But even that’s more like ‘here’s how a toaster works’ than ‘here’s how to do CPR.’” He knew a bit about this sort of thing from his mum, who was certified in CPR and other muggle methods of first aide, but that was because she was a teacher and he believed it was required. “But maybe we should have that. Especially since half the stuff we learn can blow someone’s eyebrows off.”​