Number of Students at Hogwarts

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 69205

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marephraim" <leef at c...> wrote:
My question would be: If Snape is /the/ potion master of the school, 
and no other is mentioned, how does he teach students of all seven 
years, given the inevitability that there would have to be more than 
one class with say the fifth years (more than one group of 
Gryffindors)?
> 
> M.E.

<Atropos G.>  If we assume there are about 30 students per year in 
each house, then perhaps the following works.  Snape has to teach 
Gryffindor and Slytherin Potions (60 fifth year students say), but he 
teaches the first 30 on Mon, and the second 30 on Tues.  If he 
teaches 7 periods a day and has a lunch period and a planning period 
he could cover all 7 levels of two houses in 2 days.  Then on Wed and 
Thur he could do the other 2 houses and Friday could be for 
tutorials, remedial potions, etc.  We also know he is not adverse to 
teaching at night.  This may not be quite right, but could work with 
some tweaking-we would need a jr jhig teacher to tweak it.

A.G.