The Chairs Debate

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No: HPFGUIDX 27337

> >Here's some more evidence of benches
> >in the Great Hall taken from GoF
> >Chapter 37.
> >They did it, all of them; the benches
> >scraped as everyone in the Hall stood,
> >and raised their goblets, and echoed,
> >in one load, low, rumbling voice,
> >"Cedric Diggory."
> 
> Seems like a Flint:  chairs through PoA and benches in GoF.

(Psst, aren't benches usually fixed in place?  A non-fixed bench seems
awfully unstable to have anywhere from tens to a hundred plus
[depending on your Hogwarts student population theory] people sitting
on!]

But there are also chairs mentioned in GOF.  Seems like a
inconsistency?  We'll have to debate this out.

In argument to whoever said something about Hermione "budging up" some
Krum could sit at the Gryffindor table...Ron could have intended for
Hermione to SCOOT her chair over so that more chairs could be fit
around the giant tables.  Or perhaps there were empty chairs around
the group and Ron wanted Hermione to move to make the empty seats more
apparant.

Has anyone else noticed that whenever the Hall has been "cleared" it
only mentions the TABLES being moved and not the chairs/benches?  No
matter the case, there still seems to be more evidence for the chair
argument.

Personally, I don't see this as a "mistake" in the movie either way. 
Benches are much more practical for set pieces...and hey, if using
incorrect benches makes Warner release future productions faster, I
say all for it!