Late in the topic but oh well

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 13014

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Saitaina" <saitaina at w...> wrote:
> If you only teach four classes as week (assuming you teach every
> year for the house in one day which isn't that hard) what do you
> do at Hogwarts for the other three days....take really long bubble
> baths?

Teaching for seven hours straight sounds a lot harder than 
programming for seven hours straight -- and some classes, especially 
Potions, seem as if they would need more than one hour to do the lab 
work -- I'm not particularly confident that two hours would be enough 
for them to brew all those potions in class.

Supposing they did teach for four straight days, they would then 
correct papers for the other three days. I think that teachers, on 
average, spend as much time grading homework and exams as they do in 
class with students. Of course, a teacher who assigns a lot of essay 
questions takes more time marking them than does a teacher who assigns 
a lot of multiple choice questions, who in term takes more time 
marking than a teacher who rarely assigns any homework nor gives 
exams. McGonagall seems to assign a lot of essays as homework: I 
can't remember which book, but we see, one time after the bell rang 
for end of class, she kept the kids another 30 seconds to assign an 
essay, due next class, on how switching spells must be modified 
for use on living things, with examples. I fantasize that Snape is 
such a son of a bitch, I mean perfectionist, that he also assigns a 
lot of essay on Theory of Potions, history of famous potion 
makers, and so on.