[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of Students at Hogwarts

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 69347

At 22:44 +0000 on 07/10/2003, Susan Smith wrote about [HPforGrownups] 
Re: Number of Students at Hogwarts:

><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.

You are forgetting one thing - 6th and 7th year Potions are NEWT 
classes where only the 5th year students who got O Grades in their 
Potion OWLs get to attend the classes. I think that we can assume 
that there is only one class worth of students (who comprise the O 
Graded students from ALL the Houses further trimmed by those who do 
not want/need Potions for their chosen prospective job) not the 4 
Houses worth from the first 5 years.

While there will still be 2 or 3 [or more] sessions in years 6 and 7 
that still comes to much less periods than the earlier years (*) 
since that is for only ONE group not the 2 or 3 groups as in prior 
years.

(*) Years 1-3 (and possibly 4 - I've not checked) are one 
session/period a week I seem to remember. In Year 5 (in preparation 
for the OWLs) this becomes 1 back-to-back session [2 periods] a week 
for 2 [or 3 if H and R do not combine like S+G do] groups.


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Bob Rosenberg