[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of teachers? (WAS children responsibility)

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 34069

  Greetings!

> Hollydaze wrote to us:

H> Is there any "agreement" on what the number of teachers
H> at Hogwarts is. I mean have HPfGU agree on a number
H> bracket? It's just that there is one comment that bugs me
H> about the number of teachers (and yes it is related to
H> the number of pupils!!)

H> [... A LOT of information ruthlessly skipped ...]

H> Please point out if I have completely missed something obvious.

  There is no agreement on the number of teachers, you are
right in saying that. The subject is highlighted on Lexicon
quite well - in fact it's there where I was getting my
information from. And AFAIK there's simply no solution to
this problem as it seems to be one more bug in JKR texts.

  My idea about students responsibility has been replied by
some people and it now seems that I got slightly confused
with differences between Western and Russian education
systems. Still my point remained the same - that wizarding
children are more responsible compared to muggle children of
the same age (in average, of course). But this has no direct
connection to your letter, so I close this line.

  I keep thinking that it would be great to know that JKR is
going to rewrite the whole series after Book 7, in order to
remove such [several untranslatable Russian words skipped]
errors from them. At the very least that would be fair to
those poor saps who spend lots of time trying to organize
the information from her books for others knowledge.

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
(Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed),
always happy to throw weird ideas into the community.

    - It's so good - not to lie. What for anyway? There's so
    much truth in the world that lie becomes unnecessary.
        Leonid the Diver.
        (Sergey Lukyanenko, "Labirinth of Reflections").