It's probably a representation of how every student has had that one teacher -- the one that's monotone and drones on the whole time about stuff the students don't care about. And the students don't care about it because the professor doesn't make it interesting. I've had several examples myself of terminally boring teachers from junior high up through graduate school. And if you're going to have a boring teacher for the kids to complain about, might as well make it something muggles complain about too, like history. That way all of the actual wizarding stuff can be cool and interesting.
Besides, if history had actually been taught well, our main characters wouldn't have been so continually clueless about the forces driving the wizarding world.
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Besides, if history had actually been taught well, our main characters wouldn't have been so continually clueless about the forces driving the wizarding world.
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