Introduction
You should have concluded by now that I'm not Jo Rowling (why would she be posting here?) and from that deduced that the Harry Potter series is not my intellectual property.
This fic has existed in two versions. The first version had a different Muggle Studies teacher at the start of the series, and he departed to make way for the character that I brought in to fill the role, and Martin remained on the job for the duration of the Harry Potter years.
Then JKR gave a name to the Muggle Studies teacher, made said teacher female, had her on the job at the end of the sixth year (in order to be kidnapped by Voldemort and Gang), and replaced her with a Death Eater, thus rendering my own humble efforts entirely non-canonical.
By and large I am a very canon-sensitive person. I made significant edits after I read a scan of JKR's notes for Prisoner of Azkaban; you can read the notes at her site (if you can find them). I found out that she had names planned for Vector and Sinistra (names different from what I had thought up), and that at the time she scribbled the notes the Ancient Runes teacher was supposed to be a witch by the name of Bathsheba Babbling (and not, as I had conceived, a wizard surnamed Sigil).
Before Deathly Hallows was published, I had warned the reading audience that any future canon which was incompatible with my own efforts would result in my taking the fic down. I don't like people who piss on the canon, and so when the events mentioned above were related in Deathly Hallows, I decided to take the fic down.
Then I got an inspiration, and found a way around just about everything. The problem is that I have to chuck all of the sixth-year stuff that was already posted, as there is no way to have Martin hanging around the castle during that time, and I will have to cook up something else to fill the void.
The series so far has revolved around Gryffindor and Slytherin, and so I wanted to explore things from the viewpoint of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw characters. Additionally, a few of the faculty members—Professors Sinistra and Vector, and the person who teaches Ancient Runes, for instance—have been mentioned in passing but have not had any "camera time," so to speak. So I've giving them some. I've also speculated that the comic book series that Ron collects, The Adventures of Martin Miggs, the Mad Muggle, is based on the doings of an actual Muggle.
But admittedly, the whole reason for this is to see what Hogwarts would be like for a Muggle. I am informed that there is a large quantity of Mary Sue/Gary Stu out there, in which a Muggle child attends Hogwarts for some reason, and discovers that she/he is a witch/wizard (and sleeps with Harry or Ron or Hermione or Draco or Lupin or Sirius or Snape or Buckbeak or what have you), but the idea of the Hogwarts staff (a) not knowing whether a given student is a Muggle, and (b) admitting a student whose magical ability is not established in some way, is simply ludicrous. From time to time the parents of a Muggle-born or halfblood student visit the school (that is canon as of Chamber of Secrets), but there would be only one reason for a Muggle to be spending extensive time at Hogwarts. Consequently, I have made Martin Miggs the new professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts. He will begin teaching during Harry's first year (although not right from the beginning of the year; he was not mentioned at the start of term feast).
Since I'm a Muggle of about the same age as Martin is in the stories I intend to write, and since I am a school teacher, the potential for this turning into Gary Stu is enormous. I promise not to make him wiser than Dumbledore, more devious than Snape, more upright than McGonagall, more industrious than Sprout, more intelligent than Flitwick, a better Seeker than Harry, a bigger prankster than Fred and George, or a harder drinker than Hagrid. And unlike Mary or Gary, he definitely won't be sleeping with any of them, although a romance between him and one of the witches his age will develop over the course of the series; if you've read everything I've posted so far, you won't have much trouble guessing who that will be.
Anyway, enjoy.
The story begins during Harry Potter's very first year. If there is an author's note at the top of a chapter, it explains where the chapter fits into the canon so far; if there is no note, assume that the chapter falls immediately after the previous chapter. As things stand, there are bits and pieces scattered all throughout the time of the first five books; except for the happenings of the first year, and a few things scattered afterwards, I haven't really plotted things out that well. Like the HP series from which this is derived, the last chapter is already written.