Do all the teachers use Time Turners?

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 72609

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kellymcj2000" <kelly at p...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, CareALotsClouds at a... wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been discussed before, but the Teachers must 
use 
> Time 
> > turners surely!?  There should be 14 lessons in one period.   So 
> there should be 
> > more than one class having potions at one point since the first 
> three years have 
> > basic lessons (Potions, Trans, History, Herbology, etc) There is 
> only one 
> > teacher per subject, so do all the teachers use time turners to 
> teach all the 
> > lessons?
> 
> KelMc
> You know, I've wondered about the number of lessons they must have 
to 
> teach too.  I'm putting the seeming impossibility of it down to 
being 
> a flint.  Would flint even be the correct term?  From what they say 
> about time turners in PoA, I don't think they're used often.  I 
don't 
> think the teachers use them.  I haven't tried to work out how many 
> classes they'd have to teach exactly though.  Maybe it is 
possible.  
> Seems unlikely, so my guess is it's an oops.
> 
> KelMc

I admit it-- I tried working out some schedules for certain 
Professors to work out how they could teach all the necessary 
courses.  
What I have determined as the only excuse is that not all classes are 
each day (Say Charms only on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or Astronomy 
once a week on Wednesdays or such) and that often First, Sixth and 
Seventh years are often grouped together with all four houses. It 
would make sense that First years, who are getting general 
instruction on things are grouped together and that as courses get 
more in depth, they split up for smaller class sizes to help 
students.  Then, for Advanced NEWT prep courses, I think it likely 
they stick these all together again because I guess they would be 
intensive and longer time blocks perhaps and that not ALL students in 
the year are in each class, so it would be best to put all houses 
together for those in the classes.  

Some specific classes, like Potions and CoMC, and Herbology tend to 
be "doubles" where there is never a class with only one single house 
and students often partner up.  This makes sense because these 
classes have a consumable resources (Potion ingredients, plants to 
use, animals to care for) and must be stretched to be used to 
instruct everyone--kind of like our own muggle science classes.

Arya