new thoughts on students at hogwarts/red flag/canon

[Deirdre F Woodward]

No: HPFGUIDX 80713

fawkes(pat) wrote:

>Okay so i was reading the POA yesterday(for >the thousandth time) and
>i came across a passage . . . there were said to >be 100 students(and
snape).
>this is just to further prove the theory about >5girl/5boy per grade.

Grey Wolf then wrote:
>Here, have a nice red flag for major canon >violation . . .  To
>quote: . . . "Behind
>the Slytherin Goalposts, however, *two >hundred* people were wearing green"
(GOF)

fawkes(pat) responded:
>1) i didnt use canon, so hears ur red flag back.

To all of which, I, Deirdre, respond:

Fawkes(pat):  canon is when you quote directly from the books, which is what
you did in your first post.  If you didn't quote directly from the book in
your first post, and were in fact just making things up, that's a different
story.

Grey:  Fawkes(pat) was quoting PoA, while you quoted GoF.  Apples and
oranges.

If in year three there's 100 people at one match cheering for Slytherin;
then, at a seperate match in year four there's 200 people at a match
cheering for Slytherin, even I, a total math failure, can deduce that the
number of students attending any match fluctuates, thus making it impossible
to deduce the number of students attending Hogwarts.

Deirdre