A Couple of Hours a Day on One Subject-Was That Really So Much? (Thanks for the generous donation!)

If you asked Hogwarts students which holiday they hated most, Easter break would come in first place.

The first reason was that, like Christmas, the holiday had essentially nothing to do with wizards or the Wizarding World.

For ordinary wizards, the Catholic witch hunts were an important topic in A History of Magic, and had always been considered persecution of wizards by Muggles.

From that point of view, what wizard in their right mind would deliberately celebrate the birth and resurrection of an important leader of an enemy faction?

Wizards had only begun celebrating these holidays because so many Muggle-born wizards had been absorbed into the Wizarding World and brought the two holidays with them.

Of course, this reason didn't really matter to young wizards. No one cared.

After all, everyone had a pretty good time at Christmas, and hardly any students hated the holiday because of its origins or were eager to go to class instead.

The main reason Easter break had earned its place as the young wizards' most hated holiday was that it fell so close to the final exams.

And since the exams were so near, professors had to resort to certain measures to make sure their students didn't get an unprecedentedly abysmal score in their subjects.

Assigning homework had always been the professors' favorite trick.

By the time the holiday was over, students hadn't gained many pounds, but they'd written a mountain of homework for their various classes.

Of course, some students did complain to their professors, but the professors would only smile kindly and reject them coldly.

According to Professor McGonagall, studying was the best form of rest, and her homework was the perfect tool to help them relax.

After Transfiguration, they could give their minds a change of pace by thinking about the