Re: 1st Of September
- From: "Kenny" <omgtheykilledkenny@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:49:44 GMT
"Thom Madura" <Tommadura@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tim Bruening wrote:
This year, September 1 was on a Saturday. Does that mean that classes
at Hogwarts started on Monday September 3 (since Hogwarts doesn't have
classes on the weekends)?
If you follow the logic of the books - then classes may indeed start on
the Monday after the 1st. However - that doesn't mean that the opening
banquet isn't on the first.
I just did a quick skim of the relevant chapters in the first six books. It
seems that every year, everyone gets on the train on the first of September
in the morning. They arrive at Hogwarts in the early evening on the first
of September, then proceed immediately to the banquet. So all three of
those things happen on the first of September.
Then, in PS/SS, CoS, PoA, GoF, OOTP, and HBP, it states that the very next
morning, everyone goes down for breakfast, gets their class schedules for
the year, then proceed to their lessons a few minutes later. In fact, in
the books, JKR often talks about what their first day of classes are like.
This clearly says to me that classes always begin on the second of
September -- regardless of what the day of the week is. With that, it is
inevitable that -- using a standard muggle calendar -- their first day of
classes can be a Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or whatever day of the
week the second of September happens to fall on that year.
This means that every so often, the students go to lessons on that first
weekend which would make for a very long week as they would have classes
Sat, Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, and Fri. It also means that every so
often, they would have a very short week too -- especially if the second of
Sept was on a Friday.
Or wizards use a completely different calendar altogether where the second
of September is always on a Monday regardless of the year.
Kenny
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