Number of Students

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 8072

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
> 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

30 inches of space per student!!!! That's a lot of room! I've been at 
fancy to-do's where the formal place setting was confined to a very 
cramped 16 inches!

Maybe there are speakers built into the walls?

:-) Milz