timetable problem

[Random832]

No: HPFGUIDX 183069

I was trying to work out a consistent class schedule for a fanfic I'm
working on, and ran into a problem.

Suppose there are 8 hours in the normal "school day", and classes are
only normally on weekdays.

Each core class (the ones that are required in year 1-5) obviously has
one class group per house per year - 20 total - for the OWL years.
assume at least two groups per year for the NEWT years, that's 4. There
would probably also be one remedial OWL group. So, 25 groups total.

Since there's only 40 hours (8 hours times five days), that means there
are only 96 minutes of "professor time" available to each group of
students during normal daylight hours. This doesn't seem nearly enough
to get a proper education (or even the level of education the students
_do_ seem to get) in these subjects. It would also leave each students'
schedules quite empty of actual classroom time, so Hermione shouldn't
have needed a time turner, though she'd have missed out on some small
amount of study time.

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Random832