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The trio in their third year

"Most important of all, he had to buy his new schoolbooks, which would include those for his two new subjects, Care of Magical Creatures and Divination."
— The third year was the first in which students started electives[src]

A student in their third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was called a third-year (with a hyphen). Third-years were 13 to 14 years of age.

The third year was an important year for students, as they had to start elective courses. Every student had to select at least two elective courses to pursue, along with the core classes they also had to take.[1]

Overall[]

Classes[]

Third-year students had to take: Transfiguration, Charms, Potions, History of Magic, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Herbology, and two or more electives. Students could choose to drop an elective if it became a burden.[2][3][4]

Electives[]

B3C6M2 Trelawney's first Divination lesson in the trio's third year

Divination

Students had to start two or more electives during this year. Divination taught methods of divining the future, or gathering insights into future events, through various rituals and tools. The magic taught in this class, as well as the ability to say prophetic things, was a branch of magic referred to as "Divination". Arithmancy was apparently a more accurate (or at least more accepted) way of predicting the future, similar to an obscure but existing hobby of numerology the belief that number patterns existing in real life could be calculated to give information regarding the future.[5]

B3C6M3

Care of Magical Creatures

Study of Ancient Runes was a mostly theoretical subject that studied the ancient runic scripts of magic.[3] In Care of Magical Creatures, students learned about the feeding, maintaining, breeding and proper treatment of various magical creatures.[5] Muggle Studies was exactly what the name implies the study of the daily lives of Muggles and how they coped with not being magical, such as electricity, technology and science.[3]

Hogsmeade[]

"Hogsmeade looked like a Christmas card; the little thatched cottages and shops were all covered in a layer of crisp snow; there were holly wreaths on the doors and strings of enchanted candles hanging in the trees."
— Hogsmeade description[src]
Hogsmeade

Hogsmeade during Christmas

During this year, students had more freedom and independence. Hogsmeade weekend trips were special trips that third-year and above students at Hogwarts could take on certain weekends to Hogsmeade village. They had to obtain the permission of a parent or guardian, who had to sign a permission slip.[6]

If a student did not have the form signed, they could not enter the village and would have to stay at Hogwarts Castle in sight of the teachers.[7] If the form was signed but the student did something which disrupted the school's educational aura or safety, then they would lose their visitation rights for the rest of their year.

Curriculum[]

Subject Curriculum

Defence Against the Dark Arts[]

"Professor Lupin had complied the most unusual exam any of them had ever taken; a sort of obstacle course outside in the sun, where they had to wade across a deep paddling pool containing a Grindylow, cross a series of potholes full of Red Caps, squish their way across a patch of marsh while ignoring misleading directions from a Hinkypunk, then climb into an old trunk and battle with a new Boggart."
— Lupin's unusual DADA exam for third year students[src]
DADAexam

Potions[]

"They had Potions that afternoon, which was an unqualified disaster. Try as Harry might, he couldn’t get his Confusing Concoction to thicken, and Snape, standing watch with an air of vindictive pleasure, scribbled something that looked suspiciously like a zero onto his notes before moving away."
— The third year Potions exam in 1994[src]

Herbology[]

Transfiguration[]

"The third years emerged from Transfiguration at lunchtime on Monday, limp and ashen-faced, comparing results and bemoaning the difficulty of the tasks they had been set, which had included turning a teapot into a tortoise."
— The difficult third year Transfiguration exam[src]

Charms[]

"Professor Flitwick did indeed test them on Cheering Charms."
— Third year Charms exam[src]

History of Magic[]

Care of Magical Creatures[]

Muggle Studies[]

Divination[]

"She's seeing us separately... Have either of you ever seen anything in a Crystal Ball?"
— Third year Divination exam[src]
Harry-potter3 divination

Required textbooks[]

Appearances[]

Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 14 (Cornelius Fudge)
  2. Writing by J. K. Rowling: "Hogwarts School Subjects" at Wizarding World
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 12 (The Patronus)
  4. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 22 (Owl Post Again)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 6 (Talons and Tea Leaves)
  6. 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 1 (Owl Post)
  7. 7.0 7.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10 (The Marauder's Map)
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 7 (The Boggart in the Wardrobe)
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 8 (Flight of the Fat Lady)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 9 (Grim Defeat)
  11. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 14 (Snape's Grudge)
  12. 12.0 12.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) - Chapter 14 (Substitute Teacher)
  13. 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (video game)
  14. 14.0 14.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 16 (Professor Trelawney's Prediction)
  15. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 5 (Tulip Karasu) - Potions Lesson "Antidote to Common Poisons"
  16. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 2 (Boggarts and Butterbeer) - Potions Lesson "Wideye Potion"
  17. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 8 (Barnaby Lee) - Potions Lesson "Doxycide"
  18. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 6 (The Letter from No One) - Herbology Lesson "Mandrakes"
  19. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 1 (Year Three Begins) - Herbology Lesson "Valerian Sprigs"
  20. 20.0 20.1 Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 4 (Filching from Filch) - Herbology Lesson "Stinksap"
  21. 21.0 21.1 Harry Potter: Magic Awakened
  22. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 2 (Boggarts and Butterbeer) - Herbology Lesson "Dried Nettles"
  23. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 4 (Filching from Filch)
  24. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 3 (Three Broomsticks)
  25. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 3 (Three Broomsticks) - Transfiguration Lesson "Felifors"
  26. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 5 (Tulip Karasu) - Transfiguration Lesson "Duro"
  27. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 7 (Jacob's Room) - Transfiguration Lesson "Owl to Opera Glasses"
  28. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 9 (The Vault of Fear) - Transfiguration Lesson "Mice to Snuffbox"
  29. 29.0 29.1 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 15 (The Quidditch Final)
  30. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 6 (The Letter from No One) - Charms Lesson "Finite Incantatem"
  31. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Side Quest "Wizarding World Famous"
  32. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 3 (Three Broomsticks) - Charms Lesson "Petrificus Totalus"
  33. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 3, Chapter 4 (Filching from Filch) - Charms Lesson "Depulso"
  34. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) - Chapter 1 (Under Covers Prologue)
  35. 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 4 (The Leaky Cauldron)
  36. 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 All these books were part of the first year Hogwarts required textbook list and were used in the following years.
  37. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 13 (Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw)
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