How Twenty is Twenty?

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46561

Steve wrote;

>>We have 20 brooms at flying leasons for a double class (two houses). 
We have 20 cauldrons in the potions classroom even though everyone has their 
own cauldron, and it too, is a double class. 
We have 20 ear muffs in Herbology for a double class.<<

It suddenly occurs to me to wonder what fanon is working from to get the 
persistent notion that the students are routinely paired off in Potions class 
and work with their "lab partners" for the day. There has to be *something* 
in canon to support it, given that it is so VERY widespread.

And if it IS supported, 20 cauldrons would translate into 40 students, 
wouldn't it? 

Hmmmmm....

-JOdel