UK Deluxe Versions/Hermione Lies/Hogwarts Population

[Dave Haber]

No: HPFGUIDX 40331

I've been wanting to buy UK versions of the books for some time now, but recent discussions here have renewed my interest in doing this again.  I would really like to own the leather-covered deluxe versions, but are they the same, page-wise, as the standard version UK hard-cover books?  I wouldn't want to get them if they make page-quoting useless...  Please advise.

I, too, am apalled by the CPness of the American versions, especially as regards to Dean Thomas.  I think Scholastic should get a red card for that!  :-)

In an unrelated topic, it's been bothering me for quite a while as to why Hermione lied to Professor McGonagall about why she was in the bathroom in the troll incident in PS/SS.  I read a very old post here, in which someone said that she was saving Harry and Ron from getting in trouble, since it was their fault that she was in there crying in the first place.  I agree, that's true, but do you think Harry and Ron would have been held responsible for that by the teachers present?  In the long run, isn't doing a bad thing and then making up for it by going out of their way to save her life much more noble than than just sensing she was in trouble and going to save her?

Another unrelated topic:  Since there were five Gryffindor first year boys in PS/SS, I assumed that meant there were 5 beds in the Gryffindor first year dorm.  I futher assumed that there were ALWAYS 5 beds in that dorm.  Logically, I therefore assumed there were always 5 boys and 5 girls in each year in each house.  10 students per year times 7 years equals 70 students in each house, for a total of 280 total students at Hogwarts, not a thousand as Gretchen mentioned in a thread about breakfast owls last week.  Am I way off on this?  For there to be 1000 students at Hogwarts, there would have to be 250 in each house and approximately 35 in each house in each year.  Isn't that way too many?  Could 250 students share the Gryffindor common room?

    -Dave

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