10 Gryffindor students in Harry's year and why the unnamed 2 are girls.

[rlpenar at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11842

> 'Kay, now I'm going out on a limb, because I only have PoA with me 
at the moment.  But I seem to recall that Harry's dorm with it's five 
canpied beds is called *the* Gryffindor boys' dorm for his year.  I'm 
going to assume that because it wasn't called *one of the* dorms, 
that it is, in fact, the only one.  I would really have to go check 
CoS to make sure, but it seemed to me the most plausible 
explanation.  
> 
> Jeralyn, the Voicelady
> 

I'll just throw this in here to make it more fun - I know that 
previously we have talked about "dormitory" can mean two things - one 
single room or more collective. Last night I was reading CoS and when 
Harry and Ron are in the common room waiting for everyone to go to 
bed so that they can sneak out using the Invisibility Cloak (don't 
know which chapter, sorry), they wait to hear two dormitory doors 
shut. I'm assuming this means the girls dorm and the boys dorm. But 
doesn't it repeatedly talk about Harry going up the circular 
staircase and pushing open *his* dormitory door? 

Becky