Steve's 3rd time notes, # of first years, Draco unravelling

[frantyck at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., hp_lexicon at y... wrote:
> 5 - that bit where Malfoy swings around the crowd on his broom just 
> before shooting up into the air with the Rememberall is really cool.

Yes, this is amazingly cool. What's a bit interesting is that when 
Malfoy mounts the broom, he seems to be stepping onto a footrest or 
something equivalent. It's way too vertical for him to actually be 
sitting on the cushioning charm.

Also, what kind of a flying teacher has people line up *facing* each 
other for a flying lesson? Hooch's order, which Neville preempted, 
was to rise up and move forward a bit, then come down again. Wouldn't 
they have crashed into each other? Very funny, but poor training.


> 6 - I can't wait to see this on DVD so I can freeze frame 
everything 
> and write everything down -- I miss so much: pictures moving, signs 
> on Diagon Alley, the postmark date on the letter that arrives with 
> Harry's first envelope from Hogwarts, etc. etc. If anyone catches 
> any of those details, please let me know for the Lexicon!

About freezing and checking on a DVD, the old Hogwarts numbers debate 
came to mind third time around this afternoon: The number of students 
on the long benches works out, according to Steve's calculations, at 
about 400 (about fifty a side). This seems right, but another way to 
calculate the same thing is to ask how many first-years there were. I 
couldn't get a clear idea of numbers when they were streaming up the 
stairs to the Great Hall, nor when they line up for the Sorting 
ceremony. However, when they leave the Hall for their respective 
dorms, the Gryffindor flock behind Percy going up the stairs seems to 
number about 20. In the next shot, of them walking up the stairs past 
the moving portraits, about fifteen students are shown following 
Percy. There seemed to be more below.

So, if the new Gryffindors number about twenty, the first-years 
should be (given the implied proportions as well as the relative 
equalness of the numbers at the house tables in the Great Hall) about 
eighty. That means approximately 7x80=560 students in all.


Fans of the Boy with the Impeccable Dress Sense, please note: At the 
end of the Quidditch match, when Draco buries his face in his hands, 
one of his woollen gloves seems to be unravelling at the fingertips. 
Yikes!