Cutting RL slack (or not) - GF Course schedule

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 34135

Cindy wrote:

>Lupin endangers the Fat Lady, Ron and Harry, all to avoid the consequences 
>of telling the truth about his own wrongdoing as a student.

Ah, right.  That *is* rather worse than forgetting to take his potion.

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>So why do I still adore Lupin? Go figure.

Maybe because he feels so guilty about it?  That's what does it for me.  I 
like it that he's so self-aware and so hard on himself, which just goes to 
show that some of us love the characters who are most like ourselves.

Pippin wrote:

>Umm, dear sweet Lupin says that his Hogwarts escapades as a werewolf 
>resulted in a lot of near misses, and that the thought that he might have 
>bitten somebody still haunts him. Every time he left the shack, he became a 
>menace to human life, and he continued to do this even after he became 
>aware of it. That's more than carelessness. The people he threatened must 
>have been terrified.

I'm with you up to there.

>If he thought scaring innocent people was just part of the fun, he's no 
>better than the DE's at the World Cup, IMO.

I would agree if that were the case, but I don't think he did think scaring 
innocent people was part of the fun.  There's nothing in canon to suggest 
it, IMO; rather, he wanted the freedom and companionship.  He is guilty of 
repeatedly refusing to acknowledge how dangerous it was (and again, 
delightfully remorseful about it 15 years later), but it's thrilling despite 
the endangerment of others, not because of it.

The iffiest line is "And there were near misses, many of them.  We laughed 
about them afterwards," but it's not at all conclusive to my mind that 
that's amusement about having terrified people.

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FWIW, I've been working on a timeline of GF, and in the process, sorted out 
the course schedule for that year.  Just a supplement to Hollydaze's 
research:  the schedule is two morning classes divided by a break (possibly 
a double-long class taking all morning some days), lunch, then again two 
afternoon blocks or one Double class, followed immediately by dinner.  We 
know of three, sometimes only two, subjects per day.  There is no mention of 
Astronomy (I *think*--if anyone knows of one, will you send it to me 
offlist?).  Sometimes the morning break gets a specific mention (29); 
sometimes it appears not to exist (13).

Excepting some glitches, Harry and Ron's 4th year schedule seems to be:

Monday

Herbology (chapter 20)
break
Care of Magical Creatures (26)
lunch
Divination (length of class unknown) (29)

Tuesday

Herbology (13)
break
Care of Magical Creatures (13)
lunch
Double Divination (13)

Wednesday

Charms in a.m.; unknown whether first block, second block, or both (22)
lunch
Potions in p.m.; unknown whether first block, second block, or both (14)

Thursday

Transfiguration in a.m.; unknown whether first block, second block, or both 
(22)
lunch
Double Defense Against the Dark Arts (13, 29)

Friday

History of Magic (29)
Charms (18)
lunch
Double Potions

Questions that suggest themselves:  is History held on Wednesday mornings as 
well as Fridays?  Does Transfiguration meet only once a week, or does *it* 
perhaps meet on Wednesday mornings?  Most important for the 
how-many-teachers question: which classes are shared?  (The only verified 
ones are Herbology and Potions, with Hufflepuff and Slytherin respectively 
o' course, and I'm not sure whether both blocks are shared.)

Amy Z

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Snape made them all nervous, breathing down
their necks while they tried to remember
how to make a Forgetfulness potion.
             -HP and the Philosopher's Stone
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