"Exceptions," he drawled. "To be expected, considering there's nothing else to do, in History or Astronomy, but publish." He'd never published more than a few articles, himself. His primary interests lay in areas that few people cared to try to put to print. He hardly noticed the fact that she had the names so close at hand; he'd always been almost ridiculously competitive. He probably knew the pagecounts down to the last turn.
He knocked off her castle, with evident satisfaction. "And no one's ever cared to rad about Potions, really. Some subjects are inherently disadvantaged." Which he hadn't helped by souring an entire generation of British witches and wizards on that discipline, but ... it couldn't be helped now.