Hogwarts numbers

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51882

Trond wrote:
Actually, it's not stated that this is 
the entire crowd. Let's say there's a 
crowd of 100 people wearing anything but 
scarlet or green. That would make a total 
of 1200 spectators. It's not even stated that
the 200 that were wearing green were the 
entire green crowd. The book says "behind 
the Slytherin goal posts, however, two 
hundred people were wearing green". 
There could be any number of other green 
people all over the place.

I reply:
Wow!  Such research on the attendance at Quidditch games, and I'm 
*amazed* that this thread has continued for this long.

Compliments to all.

Just one problem here, not just with the numbers, but sort-of 
related, so I'll throw it out there.

Who says that everyone loves Quidditch enough to be at all of the 
games? I mean, aren't there *any* people that *wouldn't* be at the 
Quidditch matches? Certainly from my experience, there were tons of 
people who didn't attend school games.

If we could maybe infer a total of eight-hundred at a match, would it 
be reasonable to assume that there might be another two-hundred off 
doing something else?

And all this about students. 

-Tom, who still believes that if JKR said it, even if it was in an 
interview, it's probably correct. ;-)