Classes/would you want this for your kid?

[Charmian]

No: HPFGUIDX 8834

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Kassie Ostrander" <Kassie21 at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> >I feel pretty sure that "Double" classes are just twice as long as
> >the other classes.  Most of the time when they're referring to 
their
> >schedules, it seems like the "Double" classes are more than an hour
> >long - I think they even refer to Double Potions as being at least
> >two hours long.  Which makes sense if you think about it - an hour
> >doesn't seem to be long enough to do potions or herbology.
> >

Ah, I never thought of that. A lot of other classes seem to be lab as 
well, like Care of Magical Creatures and Transfiguration. But we 
never do see a single potions class with just a lecture; it always 
seems like they're actually using the equipment and doing 
experiments. 

> >And then you also have Care of Magical Creatures - Harry and 
company
> >have that with the Slytherin (although, as an elective class, I 
never
> >quite got why all of Gryffindor signed up and all of Slytherin 
signed
> >up) and that only seems to be an hour.

Heh. I never noticed that oddity as well. Malfoy's not too fond of 
Hagrid or creatures, so it does seem weird that he and the rest of 
Slytherin decided to take the course. I wonder why Harry continues to 
take Divination, because it doesn't seem that he enjoys the class 
very much. 

Wandering over to the (very nifty) Lexicon..... 
(http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/hogwarts_academics.html)
I have to agree (well, under the heading "Would you want this for 
your child?" the wizard parents don't have much choice, unless they 
send their kids abroad, which would probably necessitate them knowing 
French or German/whatever the language of instruction at Durmstrang 
is) that the core curriculum is rather humanities-lacking. 

Also, it doesn't seem to bode well for our heroes that they've 
skipped a year of labwork (yr 2 under Lockheart) in one of their core 
classes. But at least they've had two years of good instruction. I 
don't know if I'd argue that CoMC (Care of Magical Creatures) has 
been a waste; maybe learning to deal with flobberworms and difficult 
to care for creatures like skrewts teaches important basic skills. 
> 
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Charmian