Number of teachers

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No: HPFGUIDX 12965

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> (sighing and dragging out a worn copy of "Hogwarts: A Mathematics of 
> Course Scheduling")
> 
> Hermione here to say again that even if there were only 280 students, 
> the usual low-end guess, 12 teachers would not be enough.  There are 
> 28 divisions of students: 4 houses x 7 years.  Some double up for 
> certain classes, yielding, say, 20 groups.  One teacher simply cannot 
> cover 20 sections of Transfiguration, or Potions, or any other class 
> that every student takes every year, the way Muggles take English.  No 
> matter how small Hogwarts is, JKR is taking some artistic license--or 
> else McGonagall magically enables herself to teach 20 sections of 
> Transfiguration each term without going nuts.  (We might have the 
> explanation for Snape's chronic grumpiness here, come to think of it.)
> 
I know I'm being dense and that this subject has been done to death, but please bear with 
me. When I was at school (in Israel) our schedule was weekly. We studied maths. for instance 
once or twice a week (each lesson was one or two hours).  From the discussion here I gather 
that the schedule at Hogwarts is considered to be daily (that is, a daily lesson for each 
subject), right? Else I don't see the problem with one teacher teaching 20 lessons a week (4 
lessons a day? not very strenuos, I would think). I'm very bad at following these things in 
the books so I'll ask here - is there evidence that lessons are daily? I seem to recall 
things like astronomy lesson on Wednesday night and so on. 

Sorry if this has been repeated ad nauseam.

Naama