MOVIE: Chairs

[rcraigharman at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 27366

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., virtualworldofhp at y... wrote:
> Unless they are detached, but that doesn't make sense either.
> With several people (up to a hundred plus?) moving a bench
> backwards at the same time--it would most likely fall over--very
> impractical.

Why would several hundred people or even several dozen be sitting
on one bench anyway?  It seems to me that a non-fixed bench would
hold at most 4-6 people and that they would have several of these
instead of some unstable dekameter-long monstrosity. 

FWIW, in reading the Great Hall scenes, I imagined a room like the
Rockefeller College commons room in Madison Hall at Princeton, my
undergraduate school.  There we ate at long tables with individual
high-backed chairs, in a room with the usual collegiate gothic
appointments (fireplaces, stained glass windows, stone floors, 
dark paneling, etc.).  Now if we could have only had the crests and
the cool robes.  :^)

Indeed, a lot of what I imagined Hogwarts to be was colored by my
experience at Princeton along with a trip to London a few years back.

....Craig