Astronomy DEPARTMENT? (was: Snape's special title)

[silencescreamsatme]

No: HPFGUIDX 56107


Dan says:

> There's an entire DEPARTMENT for Astronomy? Just how many astronomy 
> teachers are there? As far as I can tell, none of the other 
> subjects have entire departments. Throughout all of the books (and 
> that whole passage is a good example) it always refers to only 
> ONE teacher for each subject. I've never read, for instance, of 
> any other Transfiguration teachers besides McGonagal, or Charms 
> teachers besides Flitwick (sp?).

My response:

Well, the technical definition of Department is just "c. A division 
of a school or college dealing with a particular field of knowledge: 
the physics department." Could it just be possible to have one 
teacher in each division? 

~Silence