School Year Length

[Mark D.]

No: HPFGUIDX 44112

Help me out with a question for my fanfic. Whayt is the school year 
length at Hogwarts (supposedly based on English school years)?

The timelines at the Harry Lexicon have the Hogwart's Express always 
leaving on Sept. 1 no matter what day of the week (despite assigning 
the calendars of 1991 - 95 to the first four books) and ending either 
the last week of June, or in the case of GoF as late as the first 
week in July.

Do English schools stay in session that long? It would mean a summer 
holiday of barely 2 months!

Uncmark