movie picture of the Sorting/number of teachers

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 12885

Looking at the Sorting picture:

How many teachers could there be at that head table? I figure there 
are probably two spots that we can't see between Quirrell and 
Dumbledore, and there Snape and some other guy (Flitwick?)beyond 
Quirrell toward the outside, which makes a total of 6 in the visible 
expanse of table: unknown (Flitwick?), Snape, Quirrell, (hidden), 
(hidden), Dumbledore. Since we know Albus sits in the middle of the 
table, does that mean that there are only 11 teachers at the head 
table? That ties in with the number Harry sees when he looks along 
the table at the Start of Term Feast in GF. There is no second table 
behind the first. So the total number of teachers is very small, at 
least in the movie. That's one more reason to suspect that the number 
of students is much less than 1000, as JKR mentioned once.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
which has a page about the number of students at Hogwarts
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon