[HPforGrownups] movie picture of the Sorting/number of teachers

[Sister Mary Lunatic]

No: HPFGUIDX 12887

You can bet that they didn't hire 1000 children as extras for Hogwarts, LOL!
Too much money, too much hassle.  It'll be interesting to see the crowds in
the stands at the Quidditch matches -- I think they could hire more kids for
one or two days -- around here they pay something modest for crowd extras.

SML

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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Vander Ark [mailto:vderark at bccs.org]
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 7:53 PM
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Subject: [HPforGrownups] movie picture of the Sorting/number of teachers


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



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