# of Students

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No: HPFGUIDX 3907

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:> 
> Let's face it, JKR simply didn't work it all out to the degree we 
> are. So there is no way it will ever all fit. She said a thousand, 
> it's a thousand. I don't like it, I can tell you all sorts of
reasons 
> why it doesn't make sense, but it is what it is. I'll valiantly try 
> to create some twisted logic to make it work because hey, that's
what 
> I do, I'm Mr. Obsession. But there's no way it will ever really
work 
> out.

	There is a long tradition that certain magical sites are 
'countless'. Perhaps this applies to Hogwarts students also.

The number of stones at Stonehenge was given as:
95 (John Evelyn, 1654)
91 (Celia Fiennes, 1690)
72 (Daniel Defoe, 1724)
140 (Stukely, 1740)

	There was a firmly held belief in the eighteenth and nineteenth 
centuries that anyone who succeeded in numbering the stones would die.
 From Albion, A Guide to Legendary Britain
Pippin