Hogwarts Class Schedule Setup

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 185939

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wrote:
>
> Hello all
> 
> I've been rereading all of the books and trying to figure out how the
> classes work.  It almost seems to resemble something like a college
> class schedule, but it also seems quirky.  I can't figure out how long
> the classes might be or how the double classes work or how the sharing
> classes thing works...  It's driving me crazy.  I'm definitely looking
> forward to opening a discussion on this to try and make it make sense.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Tabs

Geoff:
This is a re-post of something I sent last night and which seems 
to have gone to ground in cyberspace.
:-(

I was involved for many years in timetable building  and these were 
quite a regular feature. A double class is quite simply what it says - 
twice as long as a standard class.

In the school where I taught, the "standard" day was 8 periods of 
40 minutes each. For some lessons, usually with some practical input, 
such as technology, computing (which was one of my subjects) and 
games for example, this was not long enough, so they were timetabled 
in as a double lesson of 80 minutes.

In their last couple of years up to GCSE in Year 11, pupils would also 
have a number of options for their classes. These were usually 
timetabled in blocks together, not as class groups, and thus members 
of different classes would be together for these lessons.

It has been suggested in past discussions on this topic that class 
groups at Hogwarts seem to be small. We see Gryffindor and Slytherin 
being together for Potions and one presumes that a similar grouping 
occurred with Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. It should be borne in mind, 
though, that this might be also because of time demands on Snape as 
he seems to be the only teacher of Potions.