timetable problem

[Jerri/Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 183076


> Potioncat:
> You're right. There's no way one teacher could teach enough classes 
> for
> all the students at Hogwarts, even if we only imagine the 40 or so 
> per
> year that we know about. (Long running debate on the actual number 
> of
> students at Hogwarts.) Although, are there any public school high
> school teachers out there? How many students come through your 
> classes?
>
> Then add the duties of being Head of House for those 4 core 
> teachers.
> Poor McGonagall--teacher, Head of House and Deputy.

Yes, the "maths" of Hogwarts schedules can't work out.  In addition to 
the issues raised by Potioncat and the rest on this thread, there is 
the fact that the train always leaves to go to Hogwarts on September 
1, and the first day of classes is the next day, and seems to be 
always Monday!  (Or at least it is Monday every time we learn what day 
of the week the first day of class is on.)

One of the other "maths"/Hogwarts schedule issues that had me 
wondering concerns Prof. Umbridge in OoP.  HOW could she have taught 
all those DADA classes (and she seems to have only one house per 
class, only Gryffindor students seem to have been there to hear 
Harry's fuss with her) and inspected all of Hagrid's classes and all 
of the divination classes, plus other inspections of other 
teachers/classes?  I suppose that she may have used prefects or 
someone to monitor her classes reading of the text books in classes 
that don't have Harry Potter in them, but I still feel that her 
schedule, as DADA teacher and Grand Inquisitor was more full than 
possible, even before she added being acting headmistress to the load.

I was certain that the only way Umbridge could have worked the 
schedule that she did was with the aid of a time turner.  However, 
there is no cannon to that effect, I don't know if JKR intended it 
that way or if it is just one of her "maths" problems.

Jerri