Hogwarts: A tight schedule/ Timetable Challenge!

[cpennylane12]

No: HPFGUIDX 43475

Grey Wolf wrote:

> The problem is this: some of the teachers have got schedules 
that, 
> although (remotely) possible, would stress them into suicide 
in a few 
> months. The most obvious ones are Snape and the DADA 
teacher. I'm from 
> the sciences view, so I'm going to express this with numbers. If 
you 
> need clarification, please do tell me so.


I do love a good challenge, so here goes....  I started by trying to 
figure out when the students had class, it was quite difficult, 
considering that we really only see what classes Harry has, and 
they seem to change all the time.  

There are 12 teachers at Hogwarts that we know of - 
Professor Sprout (Herbology), Professor Flitwick (Charms), 
Professor McGonagoll (Transfiguration), Professor Snape 
(Potions), The Defense Against Dark Arts Professor, "Professor" 
Trelawney (Divination), Professor Sinistra (Astronomy), 
Professor Vector (Arithmancy), the Muggle Studies Professor, 
Professor Binns (History of Magic), the study of Ancient runes 
professor, and Hagrid ( Care of Magical Creatures).  Also on the 
faculty are Madam Hooch (Flying), Madam Pomfry, and Madam 
Pince.  And we can't forget Professor Dumbledore.  That leaves 
us with 13 teachers who are qualifyed to teach... and one nurse 
and one librarian..

In CoS we find out that classes end at 6... then students are to 
report to their common rooms for the rest of the night... Im 
assuming that means that dinner is at 5, then too the common 
rooms, unless the students had to eat in their common rooms 
during this time, which is possible, they finish the halloween 
feast their in SS....But in GoF, the notice that they recieve about 
the foreign students arrival says that classes will dissmiss 30 
min early to great the students before the 6:00 feast.  Perhaps 
supper is at different times on different days.  In PoA, we find out 
that classes begin at 9 am, Hermione has Divination, Muggle 
Studies, and Arithmancy.

If classes begin at 9, and end at 6, with 1 hour for lunch... then 
they are getting approximatly 8 hours of class a day, which 
means 40 hours a week. Each teacher has time to teach 8 one 
hour class a day...  But there are only 14 teachers, including 
Dumbledore and Madam Hooch, for 7 different levels, and 4 
different classes per level.  Granted, there are some classes, 
such as Herbology which is taken 3 times a week, with another 
House (SS 133, US edition).  In SS Potions is only once a week 
(Friday Morning (pg. 135)) for the first years. ( Page 221, US 
edition)  In CoS it is both Thursday Afternoon, and Wednesday 
Morning, for the 2nd years.    In PoA, it seems as if they are back 
to just Double Potions once a week.   Some of the classes seem 
to only teach one house at a time.  Defense against the Dark Arts 
was only one house, and it seems like they have it at least twice 
a week, if not more as they get older.  It just doesn't make any 
sense, and some days they have one double class before lunch, 
other  days they have 3 classes before lunch, some times they 
have a double, then 2 classes...  
 

Im worried about all the teachers, except for the ones that only 
teach classes that are 3rd level and above.  They seem to have a 
lighter course load then the rest.  One thought is the 
Dumbledore teaches all 7th years, but that's probably going to 
be shot down in subsequent books... If he's such a great wizard, 
then why is he stuck in administration?  Another Idea would be 
that the professors just teach part of the class, and then run next 
door and teach part of another class, leaving a teachers aid in 
charge, but that just doesn't seem to make any sense at all.   
One other option, besides the time turners... is that Ravenclaws 
are honor students... they have separate classes, and thats why 
they are never around... that would cut everyone's classes down 
by a 4th, except for Snape, seeing as he seems to be the only 
person around who knows how to make any kind of potion..... 

If anybody on the list likes logic problems, i have 4 for you...  I 
have several clues as to when each class is for Harry's class, 
but no order to my notes, and im getting kind of sick of trying to 
figure this out.... I'll start with CoS.  ( all page numbers are the US 
edition)

Friday Mornings they have Herbology and Transfiguration. (pg. 
197 US ) 

On the 1st day of classes they have db. Herbology w/ Hufflepuffs 
( pg 91) then they go directly to Transfiguation ( pg 94).  After 
Transfiguation, they have Lunch, then they go to Defense against 
the Dark Arts. (pg 98)

Friday Mornings, Charms. (pg 104)

Wednesday Mornings - Potions ( Pg 146) then lunch , then 
History of Magic ( pg 148) , then they go to their common rooms, 
then to dinner.

on some random day, they have potions followed by Herbology, 
followed by DADA ( pg 269)

they have DADA on Fridays.

Potions with Slytherin - Thursday afternoon's.  (pg 186) 

on Feb 14th, they have charms...

Now, i don't know if it is possible at all to try and figure out any 
sort of usuable schedule from this, but if anybody wants to go 
ahead and try, go for it... Remember, this is just from CoS... i did 
the same thing with SS and PoA, GoF was just too long, and i 
didn't know it as well, seeing i haven't read it as many time.  If 
you want the ones from SS or PoA, just email me at 
CPennyLane12 at yahoo.com

One other thing that i noticed... In SS, they say that Astronomy is 
at Midnight on Wednesdays. (pg 133) - but later on pg 236, its a 
wednesday night, and the clock chimes midnight when ron 
climbes through the picture hole, and complains to harry about 
Norbert biting him.  Now, does this mean that Harry and Ron 
were *Gasp* skipping Astronomy?  I don't think so, because it 
was stated earlier something about everyone being in bed...Or 
does it mean that class schedules change from sememster to 
semester... I hope not, im confused enough as it is... 

Kassie aka Penny Lane... realizing that she needs a new 
hobby...