There's also the comment at the Sorting feast in Philosopher's Stone that "Snape hates Gryffindors" which implies that he's been like that for years and no one has done anything about it.
The Slug Club was definitely dubious, but Slughorn himself was cool. That first lesson? Actually motivating his students to do their best, right from the start? Good teaching, right there.
Put relatively, when I worked in a school, I taught for 25hours of the 40 I worked weekly, and I had 300-ish students spread out over two year groups. Those other 15 hours were spent marking, writing/editing exams, and planning lessons. I then had to go home and do the same for at least another two hours every night. (I also had private students coming to me for tutoring, but let's stick with the school kids for now.) So that's (roughly) 50 hours a week for 300 students, and my other duties as a staff member were minimal. I had gate duty once a week (another hour added on) and I had to attend assemblies (another five hours). 56hours for 300 students.
Transfiguration (for example) is a compulsory subject for the first five years of school, and presumably a popular one for NEWTs as well and McGonagall is the only teacher for that subject. She has compulsory meal times (at least, it's implied that they're compulsory from Harry's POV because the staff are always there during meals), staff meetings, Head of House duties (that are never fully explained) and Deputy Head duties, which will involve a hell of a lot of paperwork and organisation all on their own. We know she sends the letters out. She's also going to be involved with the Governors, making sure the other teachers are happy/have planned their lessons/sorted their own damn paperwork, the school budget, maintenance... That workload is insane. She must get negative hours sleep and be held upright by nerves of steel and caffeine.
But yesssss. Teachers with Time Turners, OMG. I need it.
Ah, but doesn't Voldemort look like his Muggle father and not his magical mother? You can't blame the inbreeding for that...Possibly the Horcrux? I think, though, that it could be that Harry (and everyone around him) was looking for similarities. Harry never knew his parents; their friends/colleagues/enemies lost them very young. They're all going to be searching for that connection.
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Date: 2014-05-28 10:26 pm (UTC)From:The Slug Club was definitely dubious, but Slughorn himself was cool. That first lesson? Actually motivating his students to do their best, right from the start? Good teaching, right there.
Put relatively, when I worked in a school, I taught for 25hours of the 40 I worked weekly, and I had 300-ish students spread out over two year groups. Those other 15 hours were spent marking, writing/editing exams, and planning lessons. I then had to go home and do the same for at least another two hours every night. (I also had private students coming to me for tutoring, but let's stick with the school kids for now.) So that's (roughly) 50 hours a week for 300 students, and my other duties as a staff member were minimal. I had gate duty once a week (another hour added on) and I had to attend assemblies (another five hours). 56hours for 300 students.
Transfiguration (for example) is a compulsory subject for the first five years of school, and presumably a popular one for NEWTs as well and McGonagall is the only teacher for that subject. She has compulsory meal times (at least, it's implied that they're compulsory from Harry's POV because the staff are always there during meals), staff meetings, Head of House duties (that are never fully explained) and Deputy Head duties, which will involve a hell of a lot of paperwork and organisation all on their own. We know she sends the letters out. She's also going to be involved with the Governors, making sure the other teachers are happy/have planned their lessons/sorted their own damn paperwork, the school budget, maintenance... That workload is insane. She must get negative hours sleep and be held upright by nerves of steel and caffeine.
But yesssss. Teachers with Time Turners, OMG. I need it.
Ah, but doesn't Voldemort look like his Muggle father and not his magical mother? You can't blame the inbreeding for that...Possibly the Horcrux? I think, though, that it could be that Harry (and everyone around him) was looking for similarities. Harry never knew his parents; their friends/colleagues/enemies lost them very young. They're all going to be searching for that connection.