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

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 56219

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?).

Silence responded:
> 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? 

Unfortunately ;) we're leading back into some of the arguments connected to the "number of students" question but there's something else that doesn't quite fit with the idea of only having one teacher per subject that would support the idea of departments. The books mention a Charms corridor, Peeves shouts it in fact: "STUDENTS OUT OF BED DOWN THE CHARMS CORRIDOR" (PS Pg 118 UK Paperback). It's after Filch nearly catches them in the Trophy room. I always thought the idea of a *subject* corridor implied there was more than one classroom for that subject but why would you need more than one classroom if there is only one teacher per subject? Not to mention the fact that if there is only one teacher with only one classroom then why do they need a rather large castle (it has at least 7 floors plus towers and dungeons) as a school. Makes you wonder what's in the rest of the rooms!

HOLLYDAZE!!!

"No one's going to try and kill you until we've sorted a few things out," said Lupin.


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