[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR Chat

[Troels Forchhammer]

No: HPFGUIDX 92322

At 05:29 06-03-04 +0000, justcarol67 wrote:
>Karen:
> >
> > Rather like the two missing Gryffindor Girls.
> >
> > By the way does everyone agree they exist, they just aren't
> > important?  She didn't say they didn't exist so they must, right?
>
>Carol:
>It's clear to me that there are ten Gryffindors in Harry's year from
>the twenty brooms (Gryffindor and Slytherin in SS/PS) and twenty pairs
>of earmuffs (Gryffindor and Hufflepuff in CoS)

That /could/ have been because there were 12 students in each of
these two houses (yielding 9 Ravenclaws in their year).

>and the eight boggartsten Gryffindors minus Harry and Hermione) in
>Lupin's first DADA class.

It has been argued that this was because the boggart was
confused - i.e. it started to assume shapes that weren't
caused by specific persons.

We now know that this wasn't the case, but we could, IMO, not
have known for sure prior to the World Book Day chat.

/Troels