Now the teacher in charge had been Professor Kettleburn, a muscular and prematurely grizzled man who made all the female students at Hogwarts sigh and the envious boys turn up their noses. However, his best feature was not his attractiveness, but his modern approach to the subject, for which textbooks were nothing more than an appendix to practical lessons. With the desks leaning against the walls, the center of the classroom became the space to practice Spells.