Definition of Care of magical creatures

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a fictional school of magic that is the main setting of the Harry Potter novels by J. K. Rowling. Throughout the series, numerous lessons are described, instructing the students in various branches of magic. There are twelve named teachers (referred to as "Professor X"), each specialising in a single subject. Some subjects are compulsory, while others are optional. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, students are required to add at least two optional subjects to their syllabus for the start of the third year. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix describes the Ordinary Wizarding Level (O.W.L) exams that are taken by students at the end of their fifth year, at which point they decide which classes to continue to the Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test (N.E.W.T) level for the final two years at Hogwarts.