OOP: Hogwarts student size new data

[Marie Jadewalker]

No: HPFGUIDX 63840

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
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>  Anyway, Harry notices when he walks out on the field that 3/4 of 
the crowd was wearing Gryffindor colors.  Then it says that behind 
the Slytherin goal posts, 200 people were wearing green.  So 
according to that 200=1/4 therefore 3/4=750 for a total of 1000.  
Approximately.
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> Richelle
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I'm not going to argue the size of Hogwarts, since there's quite a 
bit of conflicting evidence (most recently the 30 students in DADA in 
OOP, when it's traditionally been a Gryff only class).  However, your 
numbers above are slightly wrong.  If 1/4 the crowd is 200 people, 
then 3/4 of the crowd would be 600, not 750.  That gives a total of 
800.  But I really don't think we're ever going to make *all* the 
number references agree.  

~Marie