Number of students

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 7997

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:

> 
> Here's an interesting point, though. When I first read SS/PS, I 
> imagined a large student body, maybe 700-1000 kids. I have no idea 
> what gave me that impression. It wasn't anything I worked out or 
> spotted evidence of. I just got that idea from the way the place 
> sounded to me. I think that's the same thing that happened with Jo. 
> She just imagined it that way but didn't logic it all out. Then she 
> wrote details without thinking it through, but her overall picture, 
> the way she just describes the world Harry and his friends live in, 
> came through in her writing as being fairly large. We're trying to 
> fit those two views together, the general impressions and the 
> details, and they frankly don't fit. 


I think you're right - the two views don't fit, but I am pretty gifted 
at suspending disbelief, and I don't really have a problem with it.
I decided that as it's a magical school with ghosts and disappearing 
stairs and rooms full of chamber pots that appear out of nowhere, 
maybe my muggle arithmatic doesn't work there.
My backup plan is to just figure as JKR has managed to tell a fabulous 
story with great style and emotion, I'll cut her some slack on the 
details.