GF Course schedule

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No: HPFGUIDX 34190

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Hollydaze wrote:

> You have mentioned the chapter numbers (references) that "prove" 
where each lesson is after each lesson. When I wrote down my lessons 
to work out the timetable, I wrote down what you have from chapter 13 
without giving it a specific day as no specific day is mentioned other 
than that it is their first day back at school (properly i.e. with 
lessons). I did not presume they had come to school on Monday as they 
arrive at school on September the 1st and the day that September the 
1st falls on changes every year, so I left the date clear until I had 
found confirmation of what that day was. So had written down:
> 
> "Herbology (13)
> Break
> Care of Magical Creatures (13)
> lunch
> Double Divination (13)"
> 
> Without mentioning a day! 
> 
> When I reached other references that mentioned these lessons in that 
SEPCIFIC order, I then took that as a confirmation of exactly what day 
they were on. This way I ended up with:
> 
> Herbology (13)
> break
> Care of Magical Creatures (13)
> lunch
> Double Divination (13)
> All confirmed in later chapters where these lessons always happen in 
this order on a MONDAY (this happens in about 3 of them that cover 
this day again and again, it is never mentioned that they have this 
lessons SPECIFICALLY on a Tuesday, chapter 13 only mentions them as on 
their first day back at school and "the following morning").

Okay, I've figured out the problem, and it's all Jo's fault. <g>

We do have specific confirmation that lessons begin on a Monday and 
that that day's lessons are Herbology, CoMC, and Double Divination, on 
the first page of chapter 13:

  "Today's not bad . . . outside all morning," said Ron, who was 
running his finger down the Monday column of his timetable, "Herbology 
 with the Hufflepuffs and Care of Magical Creatures . . . damn it, 
we're still with the Slytherins . . . "
  "Double Divination this afternoon," Harry groaned, looking down.

It couldn't be more explicit.  And you're right, I don't find a 
mention of this schedule being repeated on Tuesday (just going by a 
quick perusal), whereas we do have that mention of History being first 
thing on a Tuesday, the day of the first task.  So, I ask myself, why 
did I think they had Herbology-CoMC-Divination on a Tuesday.  And I 
answer myself, "because of *(#$% chapters 10 and 11" (25 points to the 
house of whoever knows who I'm quoting, btw).

Chapter 10 starts the trouble with this line:  

  "It's been absolute uproar," Percy told them importantly, the Sunday 
evening before they were due to return to Hogwarts.

This is ambiguous in itself, but we know they return the very next day 
 by reading on to the end of the chapter and the beginning of the 
next.  Arthur returns home, people squabble about house-elves, Molly 
shoos them upstairs, Ron and Harry discover their dress-robes, bang, 
end of chapter.  Chapter 11 begins with:

  There was a definite end-of-the-holidays gloom in the air when Harry 
awoke the next morning.  Heavy rain was still splattering against the 
window as he got dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt; they would change 
into their school robes on the Hogwarts Express.

They arrive at school that evening, of course, and lessons begin the 
next day:

  (Dumbledore, end of the welcoming feast):  "And now, it is late, and 
I know how important it is to you all to be alert and rested as you 
enter your lessons tomorrow morning."  (chapter 12)

(chapter 12 ends with them going to bed)

(chapter 13 begins with "The storm had blown itself out by the 
following morning," and abovementioned discussion of first lessons 
ensues)

So it's a Flint:  they go to Hogwarts on a Monday and begin lessons 
the very next day, a . . . Monday.  And now I have to go fix my whole 
schedule file because I built in the assumption that lessons began on 
a Tuesday all over the bleeping thing.  

Amy

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