Food in wizarding world

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 76393

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001"
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:

> Kim I'm beginning to get a bit concerned about the enormous amount 
> of food consumed by everyone at Hogswarts.  Hardly a healthy diet, 
> even for growing teens.  Also, apart from lessons, theredoesn't seem 
> to be any supervision by adults.  Students go to bed just when they 
> think they will, sometimes not until the early hours. How sad am I to 
> be worrying about fictional characters putting on weight or not 
> getting enough sleep!



bboy_mn:
The entrance to Gryffindor tower is on the seventh floor, and being in
a castle these are TALL floors, not the 8ft. to 10ft. ceilings you
find in  most building. And, Harry's dorm room is several flights of
stairs above that at the TOP of the Gryffindor tower. These kids climb
up and down these stairs several times a day, plus up and down the
sloping lawns; I think the get a fair amount of excersize. 

True they arent' supervised by adults at night, but they do have 6
prefects and fifth years have to be in the dorm tower by 9pm.
Persumably, younger students need to be in earlier. So, it's not like
they are running wild.

As far as bed time, I think it is a good lesson in responsibility.
True they let you go to sleep when you want to, but if you oversleep,
it mean no breakfast and detention. Both very good incentives to make
it up on time.

just a thought.

bboy_mn