The classroom where Muggle Studies was taught was in a tall tower overlooking the Forbidden Forest and was decorated in a rather garish manner with Muggle images all over the walls. The desks were arranged in a single horseshoe shape, with an aisle in the middle, flanked on both sides by a row of tall windows. The classroom had a somewhat dated look to it, and appeared to be rather neglected in comparison to the rest of the castle.

The course covered all aspects of contemporary Muggle life, including literature, music, art, and history, as well as aspects of technology such as the internal combustion engine, the internet, electricity and nuclear power. Magical students are exposed to Muggle artifacts in a controlled environment, and practice in the study of their functions before taking trips to Muggle London with their teacher.

That was the theory, anyway. In practice, most Wizard students didn’t take it seriously at all, as Muggles were considered to be inferior and boring. The teachers didn’t help, as they tended to use outdated Muggle information and to be less than tolerant of Muggle ways of doing things. Some of them had never been out of a Wizard village, or out of a Wizard country even, and tended to look down at Muggles and their customs. They couldn’t see their point of view, and often thought of them as savages, or at best, backward peasants.