[HPforGrownups] Re: How Twenty is Twenty?

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 46573


--- jodel at aol.com wrote:
> 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? 
> 

Hmm, didn't Neville melt Seamus' cauldron in SS?  Yes
it mentioned that Snape put them all in pairs that
day.  I don't know how common it is for them to work
that way, though.


Rebecca

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