Hogwarts classes and textbooks

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 182653

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jerri/Dan Chase" 
<danjerri at ...> wrote:

> Take the Astronomy.  Carol made some excellent points.  If HRH were 
> taking an Astronomy class at midnight or thereabouts one night a 
> week, surely it would have interfered with a detention or late 
> night homework or running around under the invisibility cloak 
> or at least had them sleepy the next day.  


zanooda:

I agree with you that this is one of the books' inconsistencies :-). 
However, I think that maybe you are mistaken, and Astronomy is not a 
class scheduled to take place regularly on the tower every Wednesday 
at midnight. I mean, for how long does one need to stare at the 
sky  :-)? There have to be a theoretical part as well, which doesn't 
require a telescope, a tower or a night sky. The students can read a 
textbook and study charts, can't they?

What I mean to say is that maybe there were a few classes at night, 
but not all of them. The rest of the classes are regular classes in a 
classroom, maybe once a week (although I don't understand why they 
are never shown :-). The midnight classes were mentioned only once, 
rather early in PS/SS, iirc. Maybe there were a few of those at the 
beginning of the first year, just to show the kids where every star 
and planet is situated and familiarize them with the night sky, but 
later on they just studied by the book. What do you think? Just an 
idea ... :-).