Number of Students

[Jim Flanagan]

No: HPFGUIDX 8069

Hmmm... If there are 1000 students, as Rowling said in an interview a 
couple of months ago, then how long would the tables in the Great 
Hall have to be?

1000 students / 4 houses = 250 students per house

250 students / 2 sides of the table = 125 students per side

assume 30 inches of space per student, then

125 students x 30 inches/student = 3750 inches = 312.5 feet (95m)

Thus, each of the four tables has to be slightly longer than an 
American football field.  Seems inconvenient, and there has been no 
mention of multiple tables for each house or the use of sound 
amplification to reach those at the far end of the hall.  Maybe they 
use a trick similar to the Secret Keeper or confundus charm to make 
3/4 of the students "invisible."

-JF