Impossible timetable/Dementor's kiss

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 38475

Steph/Sherlock/Merlyn wrote:
> Grey Wolf wrote:
> >Which means an excess of 32 hours every week-impossible except by 
> time-turners
> 
> I wonder, is there any thing in cannon that can hint at the staff 
> using time-turners? Or at least some of the staff. Any thoughts 
> anyone? Also, could it be possible that some of the teachers that 
> only teach the subjects that turn up in the 3rd year *also* teach 
> some other subjects?

> Thanks for explaining my theory flaws :) (can you also help with 
> helping me pick apart 'Of Mice and Men' which is boring me to death 
> and I can't seem to revise it?)

It's been ages since I read "Of Mice and Men", and found it pretty 
boring, too. Never did see why we read that one and not any other book. 
You *could* take that question to OT, I suppose, but explaining me what 
"revise" is would probably be more difficult than doing it on your own.

> How many teaches do there seem to be at Hogwarts?
> 
> Steph

Based on the GoF's sorting ceremony, 12: five at each side of 
Dumbledore plus Trelawney and Binns, who do not attend feasts.

On a side not, my (translated) version of the books states Sinistra as 
a *female* teacher. Is a translated book which has more information 
considered canon? I've translated books from time to time, and I know 
we ted to be careful in the matter, but Sinistra's name sounds femenine 
in my language, so maybe they just jumped to the supposition in the 
first book without bodering to ask JKR.

> But, as Bernadette asks, does the WW actually *know* what happens to 
> the victim's oul? After all, presumably no-one's come back to tell 
> them. Do they care?
> 
> Eloise

No-one come's back, but many, however, *stay* after death, so all 
wizards are acutely aware that, when the body dies, the soul can have 
an independent existance: that of a ghost. I imagine that it's not 
based on faith (as it happens with us RL muggles). Instead, as in most 
fantasy books, the knowledge of what "happens after" is based on facts 
in the Potterverse, to a point.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf