Impossible timetable

[mike_wiltse]

No: HPFGUIDX 38369


> Usually, the kids have 2 classes during the morning, then Lunch, 
then 
> another class (perhaps 2?). After thorough reading, I could come 
with 
> the following:

I always assumed that when she wrote "double potions" she meant 
simply that the class was shared with another house, not that it took 
twice as long.

I also assumed that most days there were 4 classes with 1 or 2 days a 
week there was a free period (I will try to find the quote on that.)

Ok here comes a LONG nasty quote

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"Harry looked up at the staff table. There seemed to be rather more 
empty seats
there than usual. Hagrid, of course, was still fighting his way 
across the lake with
the first years; Professor McGonagall was presumably supervising the 
drying of
the entrance hall floor, but there was another empty chair too, and 
Harry couldn't
think who else was missing.
"Where's the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" said 
Hermione, who
was also looking up at the teachers.
They had never yet had a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who 
had lasted
more than three terms. Harry's favorite by far had been Professor 
Lupin, who had
resigned last year. He looked up and down the staff table. There was 
definitely no
new face there.
"Maybe they couldn't get anyone!" said Hermione, looking anxious.
Harry scanned the table more carefully. Tiny little Professor 
Flitwick, the Charms
teacher, was sitting on a large pile of cushions beside Professor 
Sprout, the
Herbology teacher, whose hat was askew over her flyaway gray hair. 
She was
talking to Professor Sinistra of the Astronomy department. On 
Professor Sinistra's
other side was the sallow-faced, hook-nosed, greasy-haired Potions 
master, Snape
- Harry's least favorite person at Hogwarts. Harry's loathing of 
Snape was matched
only by Snape's hatred of him, a hatred which had, if possible, 
intensified last year,
when Harry had helped Sirius escape right under Snape's overlarge 
nose - Snape
and Sirius had been enemies since their own school days.
On Snape's other side was an empty seat, which Harry guessed was 
Professor
McGonagall's. Next to it, and in the very center of the table, sat 
Professor
Dumbledore, the headmaster, his sweeping silver hair and beard 
shining in the
candlelight, his magnificent deep green robes embroidered with many 
stars and
moons."

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GoF  C12

7 Teachers (Trelawney never eats at the table, and Binns doesnt need 
to eat) that I know of. But if you read the above carefully, Is she 
reading off the names on both sides of Dumbledore or only one side?  
I think its only 1 because mrs hooch isnt mentioned.

Moody DADA
Hagrid CoMC
McGonnagal TF
Snape Potion
Flitwick Charm
Sprout Herb
Sinistra Astronomy
Trelawney Astrology
Binns History
Hooch Flying ???

So 10 so far
There has to be at least 3 more although not every one will have 
every teacher.  

Either way with 28 classes slots a week (not all are filled) with 
double classes in a single slot to make more room I think it would 
all fit.  You could probably fit them all into 21 slots (3 a day) if 
you crammed enough into doubles, Harry has at least 3 doubles , CoMC, 
Potions, Herbology, (was astrology double?)

Also each years schedulle is different, they mention getting them the 
first morning.

All this is probably wrong please feel free to correct me =)