Class size discrepancy (and JKR's phone)

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
>>It's not in "Professor Umbridge," though statements like
 "half the class was looking at Hermione" seem to imply that 
more than, say, six students are staring at her. (Can someone 
help me out here.)<<

 
You were on the right track. It's on page 246 of the US hardcover 
--Chapter 12, "Professor Umbridge" right at the top.

[He had] hardly talked to anyone about this, least of all thirty 
eagerly listening classmates.

:sings, to the tune of Eleanor Rigby: All the DADA students, 
where did they all come from?

Pippin