Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 192012



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bruce Mull <bpmull at ...> wrote:

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> The point is, each student would have to sit at least 17 OWLs -- possibly more. [Not to mention any nonmagical classes which there would most certainly be, but which are never mentioned.] Therefore, how can the 12 OWLs of Percy be considered good?

Pippin:
The practical and written tests for each subject  are combined into one grade -- so Percy's twelve OWLs represent his seven required subjects and five electives. This is exceptional since there is only room for two electives a year in a normal schedule. Getting to OWL level in more than nine subjects requires either lots of  independent study or a time turner. 

But I agree that there is no realism in the number of classes or teachers. The number twelve I think was chosen symbolically rather than by calculating how many teachers or classes would be needed to serve the number of students that JKR imagined attending the school. 


Pippin



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> Also, have you attempted to organize these classes into a schedule? It cannot be done -- certainly not with the teachers listed -- but even if you add more teachers, there are conflicts with the story line which cannot be resolved with the single/double class system; unless, like the Room of Requirement, they come and go at different times.
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> I would have like to have seen this system better thought out.
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> Dr Bruce P. Mull
> Professor of Computer Science
> Professor of Mathematics
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