Opinions on Ten Big Mysteries

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 26301

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch 
<rowena_grunnion_ffitch at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 4.  How many students are at Hogwarts?
> 
>     Approximately two hundred eighty. 

> 
> > 9.  Why don't Fred, George or Harry see or notice
> > Pettigrew on the  Marauder's Map?
> 
>    Why should they? There are hundreds of little dots
> they'd have no reason to look and see who was in the
> Gryffindor dorms, nor would the name Peter Pettigrew
> mean anything to them if they saw it.

It seems to me that the failure to detect Pettigrew on the map would 
argue for a larger student body. If there were a thousand students 
plus all the staff and house-elves, it would be easier for Pettigrew 
to escape detection.

   - CMC