alchemy / Alla's question / Hogwarts class

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 185962

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> << A double class is quite simply what it says - twice as long as a
> standard class. >>
 
> IMHO in HP a 'double' class means two Houses take it together. Maybe
> Hogwarts has a rule that a class for two Houses together is also
> double-length. Does canon give any clue about the length of any class?

Geoff:
Speaking from my experience, permit me to disagree 
with you. In UK school terminology, a double lesson 
is two periods running concurrently. As I said, the 
main reason is usually to give time where there is 
a practical element. Technology, games, science, 
computing all come to mind as classes where I, as 
part of a timetable team, would schedule such a 
lesson. It would sometimes also happen in other 
lessons - Maths, English etc. in order to get the 
timetable to fit together effectively.

I previously postulated that, because Snape seems 
to have been the only Potions teacher, the two house 
combination may have forced onto the timetable. I 
was at one time the only computing teacher in my 
school. In Years 9-11, computing subjects per se 
were option subjects and fitted into option blocks 
but in the lower forms there were some odd groupings 
in order to get everyone into an IT lesson.