Hogwarts Scheduling

[squirrly donut]

How long is an ordinary lesson? How many periods are there in a day (4, 5, 6..)? When do classes end for the day? If you have anything else to add that I haven't asked as far as this topic, I'd appreciate it if you did.

[MaiaMadness]

According to this page (http://hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/hogwarts_schedules.html#daily_routines) at the HP Lexicon, there are three or four classes a day. I guess four, or they wouldn't be able to have "double Potions with the Slytherins" in the afternoon.

Classes start at 9 am, there are two classes with short breaks in between. Then there is lunch and a break, and then classes resume at 1 pm. I suspect classes are a full hour long, or perhaps 50 minutes. So:

09:00 - 09:50 Class
10:00 - 10:50 Class
11:00 - 12:00 Lunch
12:00 - 13:00 Break
13:00 - 13:50 Class
14:00 - 14:50 Class

And then the school day is over. I could imagine it to go something like that; that's how I usually have it in my fics.

[MrsRuebeusHagridDursley]

I would just like to add that we know double lessons are an hour and a half long. So from that we can assume that an average lesson lasts for about 45 minutes. And once the students hit NEWT level (sixth year) they have more breaks than before, as they no longer have full schedules.

Hope this helps!

~Morgan:)

[MissBean]

I have a question regarding schedules: When do the students find out what their schedules are? Do they get them in the morning? At the start of the week? Or is everything planned out months in advance?
Thank You~

[MrsRuebeusHagridDursley]

They get them (the schedules) on the first day of term at breakfast, before their first class.

Hope this helps!

~Morgan:)

[squirrly donut]

Thanks for the help! Wow, those Hogwarts students have it easy! What are they always complaining about in the books? I have 6 classes a day plus up to 2 hours of homework every night, with no breaks except for lunch. And I'm only a HS freshman.

[emmaholloway]

I'm sure they have six lessons. In Half Blood Prince when they get their timetables Ron says to harry how they have a free period now, then one after break and another after lunch. I assumed that along with each free period there was a lesson, but I could be wrong.

[Weasley24]

I thought that they had six lessons because in OOTP Harry and Ron complain about their lessons and I'm sure that they mention six teachers.

[MaiaMadness]

Yes. Four periods; two before lunch and two after. They had three free periods in a row that day.

[emmaholloway]

Well, if that is true and its also true that a double period is an hour and a half, then that would mean they only have three hours of lessons, which really doesnt make sense.

[cmwinters]

Thanks for the help! Wow, those Hogwarts students have it easy! What are they always complaining about in the books? I have 6 classes a day plus up to 2 hours of homework every night, with no breaks except for lunch. And I'm only a HS freshman.

They seem to have significantly more than two hours of homework a night. It seems like they get roughly two to six hours of homework per week for each of their classes (some of those teachers *cough*McGonagall-and-Snape*cough* assign rather extensive essays), so when they have Potions, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, Charms, Diviniation, Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Care of Magical Creatures, History of Magic, Muggle Studies, Herbology and Astronomy, even if they're only taking half of those classes, twelve to thirty six hours of homework a week is a bit much, especially considering that one day a week is completely screwed up by having Astronomy at midnight, and class from roughly nine to five, and whatever other extra-curricular activities on top of that (Charms Club, Dueling Club, Gobstones, Quidditch, etc)

Trelawney's dream diary, if properly done, would probably have taken between two and eight hours per week to do properly.

So I'd go with six to eight class periods, if you assume one of those was a double. So, really, seven periods, with one of them lasting longer than the other. Every day, because they seem to get Double Potions twice a week.

[squirrly donut]

B-e-autiful. I think I've gotten even more confused since I first asked the question! Everyone is convinced of a totally different answer.:eek: Oh well, may as well just pick one for my fic...