How many students at Hogwarts?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 46460

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "hp_lexicon" <hp_lexicon at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> > As a side note: They use about 600 extras to film the Dining Hall
> > scenes in the movie. 
> 
> Do you know this for a fact? As I recall, our best guess back when 
> the first film came out was that there were between 300 and 350
kids 
> in the Great Hall scene. Has someone found an official number from 
> the call sheets or something?
> 
> Not that the film is canon anyway, of course. But it does have the 
> right look. Even with that number, I wonder how the kids at the
back 
> can possibly hear Dumbledore's speech.
> 
> Steve

bboy_mn:

It was mentioned in several interivews with Daniel/Rupert regarding
the scenes with large crowds. Daniel likes do scenes with lots of
people. Now he may have been generalizing, but based on another
interview when they get the daily schedule, it list how may people are
going to be there (list the people required for that days shooting).
He specifically mentioned something like 300 when refering to the
first movie.

I was just noting the movie to give some perspective to the
discussion.


bboy_mn