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[LJL]

No: HPFGUIDX 13102

   Just as an aside, I'm thinking some of the number and faculty questions
spring from the fact that Hogwarts is SO different from what most of us
are accustomed to in the U.S. 
   I've wondered about the faculty situation; often, the head of a house
in a boarding school is a married man, and the spouse is sort of an
unofficial Mom for the kids. I imagine it's possible there's a whole
domestic side to Hogwarts we don't know anything about because it hasn't
been relevant. That could change, though, because as the students get
older, the head of the house typically invites prefects or favored
students to Sunday dinner or tea or the like as a special treat, and
that's when the kids meet the spouse and get a little respite from dorm
life. So maybe Harry and his pals have some privileges ahead of them when
they are a little older.
   And as for the total number of students, based on my own experience,
attending a school of about 500 students from age 11 to 18 means you
eventually know or recognize every kid in school just from seeing him or
her around the halls or in the dining room or library or at activities,
etc., even if you never go to class together. You might not be friends or
even close in age, but the school offers a real community -- much more so,
I imagine, than in a school with a thousand students or more. Same for the
faculty. So I find the descriptions of Hogwarts from Harry's point of view
ring very true.

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