[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of Students(tables)

[Stephanie Becvar]

No: HPFGUIDX 8077

Or maybe guys....it's just magic.......  ;)
If Mr. Weasley can make a ford anglica hold his whole family, imagine what 
dumbledore could do with some plain old tables   ;)

Stephanie

>--- 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
>

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