UK Deluxe Versions/Hermione Lies/Hogwarts Population

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No: HPFGUIDX 40333

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Dave Haber" <fawkes at w...> wrote:
<snip> 
> 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!  :-)

A long, long time ago in a newsgroup far away - sorry - I don't think 
it was this one, somebody asked why there weren't more African 
Americans at Hogwarts and didn't their absence suggest racism, 
WASPishness or some such stuff.  When I replied that I didn't think 
there were any Americans at Hogwarts, African or otherwise, but there 
may well be some black students as well as students of Asian or 
Oriental descent, the original poster had the temerity to suggest 
that the correct term for a black person - even in Britain - was 
African American!  It seems to me that ethnicity become a much more 
sensitive subject for the American publishers and I would think that 
JKR would have had to take their advice.   

> snip<
> Another unrelated topic: <snip>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?

JKR herself has said that there are about 1,000 students at 
Hogwarts.  She could, of course, be wrong!  

Pam