Yes, Virginia, there ARE 10 Gryffindor students in Harry's year!

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jeralyn <voicelady at m...> wrote:

> 1 - Neville - Snape in Gran's dress and hat
> 2 - Parvati - the mummy
> 3 - Seamus - the banshee
> 4 - unidentified female student - rat
> 5 - unidentified female student - rattlesnake
> 6 - unidentified female student - eyeball
> 7 - Dean - hand
> 8 - Ron - spider

Sorry to bring this back up after so long, but I was just having an 
argument with a friend about this and it came up. So I looked up the 
passage (PoA, p. 137, US Edition) and I found a slight problem. The 
passage reads (starting with Seamus):

"Riddikulus!" shouted Seamus.
The banshee made a rasping noise and clutched her throat; her voice 
was gone.
Crack! The banshee turned into a rat, which chased its tail in a 
circle, then - crack! - became a rattlesnake, which slithered and 
writhed before - crack! - becoming a single, bloody eyeball.
"It's confused!" shouted Lupin. "We're getting there! Dean!"
Dean hurried forward...

Now, the way I interpreted this scene, based on Lupin's response, is 
that it was confused on its own. It wasn't being made turn into a 
rat/snake/eyeball, it turned into them on its own, as it was confused. 
Then Dean was called forward to add to its confusion. So I don't think 
that any of those three unidentified people really did much of 
anything besides watch. I believe the only 6 people actually addressed 
the boggart (Neville, Parvati, Seamus, Dean, Ron, Lupin, Neville).
-Mike