DA Question -Who Signed & Who Spoke.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 102522

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "(Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The 
Healing Force)" <n2fgc at a...> wrote:

Lee:
> I found the exact reference in Chapter 17, Educational Decree Number
> Twenty-Four:
> --Begin Quote--
> "How about the Shrieking Shack?" suggested Sirius.
> 
> "Hey, that's an idea!" said Ron excitedly, but Hermione made a 
skeptical
> noise and all three of them looked at her, Sirius's head turning in 
the
> flames.
> 
> "Well, Sirius, it's just that there were only four of you meeting 
in the
> Shrieking Shack when you were at school," said Hermione, "and all 
of you
> could transform into animals and I suppose you could all have 
squeezed under
> a single Invisibility Cloak if you'd wanted to. But there are 
twenty-eight
> of us and none of us is an Animagus, so we wouldn't need so much an
> Invisibility Cloak as an Invisibility Marquee--"
> --End Quote--

Geoff:
It was the 28 I was referring to in my earlier comments. I agree with 
another poster that this was 25 plus the trio.

Lee's quote is p,331 in the UK editions. I also found:

'"Wait a moment - there is something you can do for me, Dobby," said 
Harry slowly.
The elf looked round, beaming.
"Name it, Harry Potter, sir!"
"I need to find a place where twenty-eight people can practise 
Defence Against the Dark Arts without being discovered by any of the 
teachers. Especially," Harry clenched his hand on the book so that 
the scars shone pearly white, "Professor Umbridge."'

(OOTP "Dumbledore's Army" p.342 UK edition)