Study of Ancient Runes

The Study of Ancient Runes is an elective course at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry, that can be taken by students third year and above. It was taught by Professor Bathsheda Babbling during the 1990s at least and it is the study of runic scriptures or Runology. Ancient Runes is a mostly theoretical subject that studies the ancient runic scripts of magic.

Numbers

 * Demiguise: the creature's invisiblity abilities represents "0".
 * Unicorn: the creature's single horn represents "1".
 * Graphorn: the creature's dual horns represent "2".
 * Runespoor: the triple-headed creature represents "3".
 * Fwooper: the creature is comprised of four different colored feathers represents "4".
 * Quintaped: the five-legged creature represents "5".
 * Salamander: the maximum hours of the creature's ability to survive out of fire and the amount of legs most said creatures have represents "6".
 * Acromantula: the eight-eyed creature represents "8".
 * Hydra: the nine-headed creature represents "9".

Required textbooks

 * Advanced Rune Translation
 * Ancient Runes Made Easy
 * Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms
 * Rune Dictionary
 * Spellman's Syllabary

Known O.W.L.s

 * Bathsheda Babbling
 * Barty Crouch, Jr.
 * Bill Weasley
 * Hermione Granger
 * Percy Weasley