Professor Sinistra's schedule. (Was: Re: Impossible timetable)

[booklovinggirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 38365

Quoting Nuri:
> Let alone Astronomy: 
> 14 classes (assuming they've paired houses for it) in 5 weekday 
> nights? Even having two classes the same night (like, one at 10pm 
and 
> the other at 11 or something), it's crazy.

Yes. I haven't thought of this before, but I find it unlikely that 
Professor Sinistra spends her (His? For the sake of simplicity, I'll 
be referring to Sinistra as a she.) whole week teaching for who-knows 
how many late hours, and then manages to show up at every feast and 
celebration. However, this IS possible.

The simplest way out is that she might be able to get by on a few 
hours of sleep, but that causes even more doubt that she'd be at all 
the feasts and ceremonies, much less dance the two step with a 
partner who has a wooden leg.

So let's say she does sleep for a decent amount of time, and her last 
class leaves at 2. She has to spend about two hours packing 
everything up and getting to her house/sleeping quarters/etc.

It's possible that she does this on broom, or casts a spell to aid 
with clearing up, but while the spell is a possibility, it's early in 
the morning, and flying around on broom might wake someone up, and I 
don't think that someone will be happy.

In a third possibility, however, one that doesn't require her to 
travel, she might merely sleep in the Astronomy tower. This is might 
be a bit drafty in the winter, but who knows, maybe the tower is 
spelled to be warmer.

In any event, she goes to sleep about 2-4 in the morning. Let's say 
she sleeps for 9 hours. She wakes up at about noon. That's not too 
bad. She might sleep in a bit late, or work on lesson plans, or even 
just indulge in a bit of free time, but in any event, she freshens up 
at some point and wanders down to the Great Hall at lunch. (We never 
have had evidence that she goes in for breakfast-actually, we've 
never had evidence that she goes in for regular meals at all.)  So 
she eats her breakfast there, perhaps eating a bit more than everyone 
else to stave her over to lunch, and then goes back to 
sleeping/working/indulging until dinner.

At dinner, she eats, taking extra helpings if she didn't at 
lunchtime, then goes back to the Astronomy tower to set up the 
lesson, if she hasn't already. (If she has already, I think you can 
guess what she does. ^_^) Then she teaches her lessons starting at 
about 11 or 12 and running to 2, and goes through it all over again.

Now, the question is, how do the STUDENTS manage? They have time 
between dinner and 11, and have time after their last class of the 
afternoon to do homework and other such things, (Other things, which, 
I guess, could include sleeping) and I don't think there are that 
many assignments on Astronomy, (I'm pretty certain one was mentioned, 
but that might have been Divination-star charts and so on.) but they, 
can't use the sleeping schedule Sinistra does. You really have to 
wonder what the ones that leave at 2 do.

On a final note, do you think Divination students have to keep up the 
Astronomy classes? Divination does cover Astrology, and while these 
are not the same thing, they might be close enough by wizard 
standards. What do you think?

"Katherine"