Class Scheulues

[judyserenity]

No: HPFGUIDX 35132

Psion_x wrote:
> After reading Goblet of Fire I noticed that when the Beauxbatons
and 
> Drumstrang students arrive at Hogwarts on October 30th at 6 p.m 
> classes end a half hour early. 
> So this means the last class of the day finishes at 6.00 p.m but 
> classes start in the morning at 9.am, which means the students have 
>  a nine hour long day. 
> Although there are breaks between classes these seem at the most
ten 
> minutes, so how does it add up to nine hours? As far as I can
figure 
> out in Harry's Fourth year he has three/four classes a day.So in 
> order to add up to nine hours each class would have to be two hours 
> long, a double lesson (which I take to mean as two lessons back to 
> back) FOUR hours long and lunch THREE hours long!
> Does anyone else have theory's on how this could work?...

People here have noticed problems with the class schedules before.  
For one thing, any class that's required for all 7 years would have
28 
sections (or 14 double sections), and we're not sure how a one
teacher 
covers all those sections. (And in PoA, Snape somehow manages to 
substitute for Lupin, too!)

However, I see a couple of things that may help with the problem you 
bring up.  First, there seems to be some time between the end of 
classes on Friday and the arrival of the foreign students -- the 
students have time to go to their dorms and change.  So, perhaps 
classes end substantially earlier than 6 pm.  Also, it may be that 
*sometimes* Harry and Co. have classes back-to-back, with just a
short 
break, but other times have unscheduled chunks of time.  As a 
hypothetical example, maybe they have two classes Tuesday morning,
but 
then no more classes until Wednesday, or something.  Most college 
students will be familiar with type of pattern.