new thought on students at hogawrts

[fawkes970]

No: HPFGUIDX 80702

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> 
wrote:
> fawkes(pat) wrote:
> > Okay so i was reading the POA yesterday(for the thousandth time) 
and 
> > i came across a passage about the Griffindor vs. Slytherin final 
> > match. They were tlaking about how all the students and teachers 
> > were in the crowd and how 3/4 were all wearing red. but then 
down at 
> > the Slytherin post, there were said to be 100 students(and 
snape). 
> > this is just to further prove the theory about 5girl/5boy per 
grade. 
> > Just thought id let you all know
> > fawkes(pat)
> 
> Here, have a nice red flag for major canon violation. This passage 
you 
> mention is one of the big arguments towards many-student Hogwarts. 
To 
> quote:
> 
> "Three-quarters of the crowd were wearing scarlet rosettesm waving 
> scarlet flags with the Gryffundor lion upon them or brandishing 
banners 
> with slogans such as 'GO GRYFFINDOR!' and 'LIONS FOR THE CUP!' 
Behind 
> the Slytherin Goalposts, however, *two hundred* people were 
wearing 
> green; the silver serpent of Slytherin glittered on their flags 
[...]" 
> (emphasis mine) (ch. 15, GoF, Br. Ed.).
> 
> There are 200 people in green, and they are a quarter of the total 
> (assuming there are no neutrals, which there could be, pushing 
their 
> percentage down to, for example, one fifth - see later). That 
makes the 
> total number, without neutrals, at 800 students. Many more than 
the 
> 10*4*7 = 280 that you propose.
> 
> What is more, I find it hard to believe that *all* of the 
Hufflepuff 
> and Ravenclaw were cheering Gryffindor (or that everyone went to 
the 
> match). The neutrals could easily be argued to push the total 
number 
> up. For example, if there are 1/20 neutrals, the segment of 
Slytherin 
> would be just 4/20 of the total, or 1/5, which would make the 1000 
> students JKR once said.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Grey Wolf

fawkes:
1) i didnt use canon, so hears ur red flag back. 
2) i was simply proposing the idea that there is something out there 
showing the 10per year/house might not be correct. 
3) i dont agree with that theory of 5boys and 5 girls, so u were 
wrong in accusing me of contradicting myself by saying that(because 
i did not).
4) i didnt say there were 800: i said on an earlier post before i 
think it matters about how many magical children were born in each 
year. 
~as always, fawkes(pat)