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Homework was coursework 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 was usually completed by students in the: Study Hall, Study Area, Library, Gryffindor Tower reading room, or another common room.
A homework planner was a magical diary that allowed a student to keep track of their homework assignments, with the planner verbally reminding them not to procrastinate on their homework; Harry Potter and Ron Weasley received them as Christmas presents from Hermione Granger in December 1995, much to their annoyance.[1] The Homework Cup was granted to Hogwarts students who excelled at their completion of homework.[2]
Known homework at Hogwarts[]
First year[]
- Potions: To collect asphodel, dittany and wiggentree bark in order to brew the Wiggenweld Potion in the following lesson.[3]
- Unknown class: Research dittany in One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi (presumably for either Herbology or Potions), practise wand movements (presumably for both Charms and Transfiguration), and recite the twelve uses of dragon blood.[4]
Second year[]
- History of Magic: To write an three foot composition about the Medieval Assembly of European Wizards.[5]
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: To write a poem about Gilderoy Lockhart's defeat of the Wagga Wagga Werewolf (1992–1993 school year only).[6]
- Potions: Something that involved Hair-Raising Potions and the amount of potion ingredients used in it (with rat tails being one such ingredient).[7]
Third year[]
- History of Magic: To write an essay about Medieval witch burnings to be handed in at the beginning of the school year.[8]
- Potions: To write an essay on Shrinking Solutions to be handed in at the beginning of the school year,[8] and to write an essay on Undetectable Poisons,[9] 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.[10]
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: To write an essay on werewolves (assigned by Professor Snape during his substitution)[11] and to write an essay on vampires.[12]
- Muggle Studies: To write an essay about why Muggles needed electricity, something involving diagrams of Muggles lifting heavy objects,[9] and read Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles.[13]
- Arithmancy: To write an essay (unknown topic) and possibly two assignments involving complex number charts (if one of them is not connected to the previous essay).[9]
- Study of Ancient Runes: Translating runes using a Rune Dictionary.[9]
Fourth year[]
- Charms: To read three books about Summoning Charms.[14]
- Potions: To explore antidotes.[14]
- History of Magic: To write weekly essays about Goblin Rebellions.[14]
- Divination: To produce a detailed personal chart which details how planetary movements affect the individual student's fate.[15][14]
- Transfiguration: To write an essay on Cross-Species Transfiguration.[16]
- Care of Magical Creatures: To go to Hagrid's Hut and make notes about the Blast-Ended Skrewt's behaviour.[14]
Fifth year[]
- Transfiguration: To practise Vanishing Spells (only if they did not successfully vanish their snail), answer questions assigned by Professor McGonagall,[17] and an essay on the Inanimatus Conjurus Spell.[18]
- Potions: To write a foot long essay on the Properties of Moonstone and its Uses in Potion-Making,[19] to write an essay on the variety of venom antidotes[20] and to write an essay on how to properly brew Strengthening Solution (Harry Potter only).[21] Students also had to collect five moly plants, Mandrakes and other ingredients for class,[2] research Anti-venoms and copy a diagram of a Chinese Chomping Cabbage.[22]
- Astronomy: To write an label a essay on Jupiter's moons[18] and to complete a new star chart.[23]
- Care of Magical Creatures: To finish a labeled sketch of a Bowtruckle (if not completed by the end of class) and cobble together how to properly handle a Bowtruckle.[17]
- Divination: To keep a dream diary for a month.[19]
- Herbology: To write an essay on self-fertilising shrubs,[18] and a twenty inch essay on Dittany and its uses.[24]
- History of Magic: To find four talking gargoyles at Hogwarts Castle[2] and to write a foot-and-a-half-long essay on Giant Wars.[19]
- Charms: To complete the largest amount of work ever assigned in class including how to work out a counter-charm for a particular charm.[17]
- Study of Ancient Runes: Translate a rune using Spellman's Syllabary, Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms.[23]
Sixth year[]
- Defence Against the Dark Arts: Something so complicated that it took the trio at least two hours to complete (possibly on Nonverbal spells),[25] to write essays on Dementors and resisting the Imperius Curse.[26]
- Potions: To study and take notes on Everlasting Elixirs (if Harry was not doing a self-study).[27]
- Unknown class: To write an essay on The Principles of Re-Materialisation.[28]
- Charms: To practise the Water-Making Spell[29] and to read Quintessence: A Quest by the following class.[27]
- Arithmancy: To write an essay (unknown topic).[27]
- Study of Ancient Runes: To write a fifteen-inch essay, translate two things, and read an armful of heavy books by the Wednesday following the first day of school.[25]
Unknown year[]
- Potions: To write an essay on abandoned potions of the Middle Ages as compared to the Black Plague; to write an essay on invisibility.[30]
Appearances[]
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Appears in an alternate reality)
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Appears in an alternate reality)
- Pottermore
- Wizarding World (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Mentioned only)
- Hogwarts Legacy (Mentioned only)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 23 (Christmas on the Closed Ward)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (video game)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 14 (Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 (Owl Post)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 12 (The Patronus)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game) - Console versions
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 9 (Grim Defeat)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 14 (Snape's Grudge)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 13 (Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 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)
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 13 (Detention with Dolores)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 14 (Percy and Padfoot)
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 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 16 (In The Hog's Head)
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26 (Seen and Unforeseen)
- ↑ Hogwarts Legacy, Main Quest "The Polyjuice Plot"
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 9 (The Half-Blood Prince)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 21 (The Unknowable Room)
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 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)
- ↑ Hogwarts Legacy (see this video)