How many students at Hogwarts?

[GulPlum]

No: HPFGUIDX 46470

At 07:27 11/11/02 +0000, hp_lexicon 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.

As it happens, following a discussion along those lines earlier in the 
year, I did a head count of the kids at the tables during the end of year 
feast (the still function on DVD players is a godsend). :-) There were 
23-25 at each side of each table (it wasn't possible to be definite as 
towards the back, the heads became indistinct). 25 pupils x 2 sides x 4 
tables = 200. Yes, I know it looks like a lot more, but I invite anyone 
with the requisite patience to repeat the exercise. :-)

Columbus and others are on record as talking about "300 people"  but I'm 
not sure if they were just referring to extras or everyone on the set.

--
GulPlum AKA, Richard, who quite coincidentally, has just finished watching 
PS. :-)