Class Schedule (rather long)

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 8248

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> In my re-readings...(I'm on Year 2)...I've jotted down a few notes 
> about the kids classes.  In Year 1 they have the following classes:
> 
> Astronomy - Wednesdays at Midnight in the astronomy tower. (Ch. 8, 
pg 
> 133)

At midnight! It seems as if that would tend to mess up the scheduling 
a bit. I take it that Harry and co. don't take Astronomy after the 
first year, nor flying lessons. 


> 
> Ok - so what does this mean (other than I've spent WAY too much 
time 
> going through these books lately)?  a) WE pay much more attention 
to 
> the details than JKR does (and there's nothing wrong with that - it 
> happens all the time) b) class and teaching schedule wise - I don't 
> think these kids have all their classes every day.  They're 
probably 
> more like my college classes than my high school classes.  A couple 
> of the classes they probably only have once or twice a week.  I 
think 
> it would be entirely possible the teaching schedules to fit.  Take 
> Herbology for instance - SS/PS states that they only have it 3 
times 
> a week.  And in CoS it only seems to be on scheduled for Tuesdays 
and 
> Thursdays.  As they get older and decide what they want to 
> "specialize" in, they probably take fewer hours of the core classes.
> 


This does sound more like a college schedule, because if classes are 
an hour or even an hour and a half for lab, this still leaves an 
awfully large amount of free time. Seems a bit odd also that the 
times of classes from day to day aren't consistent (i.e., sometimes a 
class is before lunch on one day, and after lunch on another). The 
cores I take it would be Transfiguration, Charms, Herbology, Potions, 
Defense against Dark Arts and History of Magic, with the rest, like 
Arithmancy and Divination, being electives. 

I also seem to recall it being stated later in the series that the 
students must keep all their old classes, and just add on the 
electives. Sounds rather nasty, in terms of workload. 

Charmian