Hogwarts: A tight schedule

[Olivia]

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I also have been reading along with this thread since it was started and
think it's a fascinating topic. I can only offer two suggestions:

1. I believe this has been brought up, but it's very possible that Ms.
Rowling simply didn't take the time to go through the math. As a writer
myself, I can vouch for the fact that not all authors plan out every detail
such as this.

2. We don't know all the teachers at Hogwarts. Some of them have been
mentioned only very briefly like Professor Sinistra -- we don't even know if
it's a man or a woman -- and it's possible that there may be more teachers
who aren't even talked about. We're seeing Hogwarts from Harry's fairly
limited point-of-view. He's only been through four years and obviously
doesn't take all the classes that are available.

As I was reading Goblet of Fire this evening, I caught something that makes
me think that there are more teachers. As Harry is looking over the staff
table at the Start-of-Term feast, he describes Professor Sinistra as the
"head of the Astronomy department." Maybe the staff table is for the heads
of departments and there are in fact more teachers at Hogwarts that teach
under the other teachers. There isn't A LOT of information to support this,
but I don't think it can't be entirely ruled out.

Olivia