More on the Hogwarts express.

[Christian Stubø]

No: HPFGUIDX 6421

JKR stated in a recent chat (well, a month and a half ago or so) that
there are 1000 students at Hogwarts.

The Hogwarts express is a traditional British steam-powered
passenger-train.  The passenger-carriages that you describe sound to me
like the commuter-trains on the American East-coast, or the new German
two-story regional trains - am I right in this understanding?  The
Hogwarts express passenger-carriages would have one story only, and
would have a single corridor along one side of the carriage, with
compartments being the width of ca. 2/3-3/4 the carriage-width, with
each compartment having 6 seats, 3 and 3 facing each other.  A typical
muggle-carriage of this design would have, I believe, 8-11
compartments.  It is not a given, with the Hogwarts express, however,
that the external and internal dimensions of the carriages are related.
 

Watch British productions of those of Agatha Christie's
murder-mysteries that invole trains to see what types of carriages I am
talking about.



--- Simon Biber <simon at basilisk2.cjb.net> skrev: > Hi everyone, I'm new
here too.
> 
> The trains around here probably take about 750 people by my
> calculation
> (each carriage has top and bottom, left and right, and about 12 rows
> of
> two-person seats in each of those 4 orientations. That makes 12*2*4 =
> 96
> people in a carriage and we have eight carriages in a train, so 768
> total.
> 
> I would say that adding other fractional platform numbers is
> stretching it,
> to me it was quite clear that all Hogwarts students and
> former-students knew
> about 9.75.
> 
> Simon.
> 
> > Okay, I'm new to this group. *waves*  You can call me
> > Ally.
> >
> > Anyway, I thought about this as I was reading your
> > suggestion, and I think you might be right.  I mean,
> > there could be a 10 and three quarters and lower or
> > something, and each platform could be allotted a
> > certain amout of compartments and passengers....of
> > course, I wasn't around for the original discussion,
> > so I'm a bit out of the loop here anyway, but that
> > would seem reasonable to me if they had as many
> > students as a "normal" private school with so many
> > grades in it has, which I believe can be as many as
> > five hundred students.
> >
> > ~Ally
> 
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