Any Muggle child could tell you that water is wet, gummy bears are delicious, and living things are made of cells. It has come to my, the author's, attention over my years in the magical community that wizarding children in general could not orate any basic knowledge of biology; they are taught how to change a rat into a goblet, but they are given no information as to why this works as it does. They can do, and yet they have no level of understanding. 

I should like to change this.

There are no science classes offered at Hogwarts, nor at Beauxbatons, and certainly not at Durmstrang. Potions class is the closest thing I see to a chemistry course, which is, pardon the harshness, pathetic. In wizarding attempts to keep our world separate from the Muggle one, in this convoluted belief of supremacy propagated by Purebloods and ingrained in our society, we have remained in the Middle Ages. Healers use herbs and alchemy to keep patients alive; History of Magic professors teach the Theory of Uno Mas - which I will cover more later, but suffice it to say that whoever came up with this theory was less than learned.

There is such a focus in the wizarding world on history that it seems difficult to shake; I have not discovered why this is, nor do I expect I ever will, but for one book I plan to shed a little bit of spotlight on the important subject of science - since, after all, history is our past, but science is the future.

Thank you for reading - I hope you enjoy and that the questions I pose in this tome spark your interest.

H. Tanner