HARRYS SIXTH YEAR SCHEDULE (2008-2009) Time 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 1:00

1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 MEALTIMES (Monday-Friday) Breakfast 6:00-9:00 Lunch 11:00-2:00 Dinner 5:00-8:00 (Weekends) Brunch 8:00-2:00 Dinner 5:00-8:00 Ron shares the same schedule with Harry, and Hermione does in addition to two more classes: Ancient Runes MWF 8:00-9:15 Arithmancy TTh 1:00-2:45 *Im not sure if its really Dungeon 2 or not, I just decided to make something up. Let me know if its so mething else. On Harry Potter wiki, Charms was room 2E; but it clearly states it is on the third floor, which makes the room number wrong, or Hogwarts room numbering totally illogical. I opt for the first choice. CHARMS Flitwick (Classroom 3E) HERBOLOGY Sprout (Greenhouse 3) CHARMS Flitwick (Classroom 3E) DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS Snape (Classroom 3C) DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS Snape (Classroom 3C) TRANSFIGURATION McGonagall (Classroom 1B) TRANSFIGURATION McGonagall (Classroom 1B) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

POTIONS Slughorn (Dungeon 2)

BREAKDOWN: For class periods, it's very strange to determine because the breaks are a quarter of an hour long. I feel like breaks are usually shorter at 10 minutes, but because the castle is big, it makes sense to make it longer. I know wizard school isn't like regular (nonfictional) schools, but schedules would work pretty much the same. Classes would have to end and start consistently before the hour and half hour. But 15 minutes is half so rounding is confusing. So for example, 1 hour is 1 credit, right? At my school, with the ten minute break that leaves a 50 minute class or an hour and 50 minute class. Classes always start and 10:30 or 3:30, etc., and always end at, say, 11:20 or 4:50. Make sense? Good. This would then mean that the equivalent of 1 credit would mean a 45 minute class at Hogwarts. That seems really cheap to me. Fifty minutes I feel isn't that far off, but only taking 75% of the time for your credits I think is stretching it. Plus, 45 minutes seems like a really short amount of time to teach your students anything. I know I feel that way sometimes with my 50 minute classes. I know it doesn't make much sense, but an hour and fifteen minutes seems like a fairer amount of allotted time for 1 credit, or whatever it is Hogwarts utilizes. Furthermore, 1 hour and 45 minutes seems like a better substitute for 1.5 credit hours than 1 hour and 15 minutes. This is where the problem occurs, I think an hour and 45 minutes is also more suitable for 2 credit hours than 2 hours and 15 minutes. Which is a problem. Maybe it's because the break is less of a percentage of class time: only 12.5 percent. But I used 2 hours and 15 minutes anyways, and it does keep things consistent. Although I believe Rowling stated that a normal class is about an hour and a half, I feel that "double" classes of about 3 hours are an unrealistic time for a class unless it's a lab of some sort like Potions or Herbology. Even 2 1/2 hours seems much too long. This isn't a college; there are young kids and they will not have the attention span to be still for that long, in my opinion. And those poor teachers! I don't think anything should be longer than 2 hours. I'll make exceptions for N.E.W.T. classes and "labs". I don't believe 15 minutes is too much longer. As well as this I feel classes should usually be MWF or TTH, it just makes sense. Or once a week or MW or WF. I would think that classes start at 8 or 9. Probably 8; 9 is pretty late to me. Also, Rowling once said there are about 1000 students attending Hogwarts. But I think it was off the cuff and she didn't think it out. She admitted as much later on when she was questioned about it. 1000, I believe is far too many students. We know there are only 5 boys in Harry's year. Calculated out, that would mean 280 students total. Because they are sorted by the sorting hat, numbers may not be equal, but it's hard to believe that only about 4% of the boys in Harry's year were sorted into Gryffindor. That is why I believe Hogwarts has around 300 students. Which is a very small number for a very large castle. Hell, that's a small number for any school. But it makes more sense, unless there are about 20 other Gryffindor boys in Harry's year that he just has bothered to get to know or learn their names. Which I don't think is realistic. Surely they would be in some of his classes. That would also mean a class size of 70 and in jointed classes, possibly hundreds. Far too many for a primary school. Unless there are also 30 or 40 other teachers Harry also doesn't know about. And since we know teachers don't share subjects (the teachers we do know of teach through all seven years we have seen), that would mean that 30 or 40 more subjects are taught at Hogwarts. Plus, 1000 students wouldn't fit on the 4-carriage Hogwarts Express. Because all of this, I have concluded that there are only about 300 students. I know this isn't explained in detail in the story, but I like to have these things sorted out anyways. Call it OCD.