Hogwarts Classes play a major role at Potter's Army. They are an essential part of the roleplaying experience that you will have as a student character. Classes drive group interaction, and represent one of the best ways to interact with other student characters.
We do not want classes at PA to simulate High School or University classes. Rather, the classes will be event based. The goal of classes is not to only teach the subject, but to use the environment to encourage group interaction and create an interesting roleplaying experience. Classes at PA thus function more like how they did in the books - as plot devices and interaction with other students - than an actual in depth study of each subject.
Hogwarts students are divided into three groups; 'Basic studies' students (Years 1-4), OWL (Year 5) students, and NEWT (Years 6-7) students. This is done in order to ensure that there are enough students in each class to make the classes interesting.
Each class lasts for 4-6 weeks. This ensures that time won't be an issue. There will be plenty of time to conclude each class properly.
Only one class for any particular group will take place at any one time. Previously, we had several classes running all at once. This led to confusion among students, and also made some classes relatively dull. We are ditching this system. Instead, there will be ONE class per month for each group of students.
You can see exactly what I mean by looking at the schedule below.
You can't sign up for all canon classes. Classes are meant to be interesting at PA. And... no matter what we do, we can't really make classes like Arithmancy as interesting as something like Defense Against the Dark Arts. For this reason, that class, and several others, are not taught in the same manner as DADA is. Note, this does not mean that the class does not exist in Hogwarts PA, only that there will be no class events for them.
The classes which will have class events are; Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Divination, Herbology, Potions and Transfiguration.
S C H E D U L E
February 5th - March 10thCare of Magical Creatures Basic level
Transfiguration Basic Level
Potions NEWT Level
Defense Against the Dark Arts NEWT level
March 11th - April 15thCare of Magical Creatures NEWT level
Transfiguration NEWT level
...To be announced
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