Class size discrepancy (and JKR's phone)

[justcarol67]

I (Carol) 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.)<<
> 
> 
Pippin helpfully responded: 
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?

Carol again:
Hi, Pippin! Thanks for coming to my rescue! I was *right on that
page*--I guess I just overlooked it (skimming rather than reading
because I'd already spent so much time on that post.

Anyway, I remember being surprised when I read that the first time
since there had always been only ten Gryffindors before. 

Carol

P.S. Are you going to FILK that lyric?