Sevens.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 159833

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sarah  barthell" <sbarthell2001 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Sarah  Barthell wrote:
> > > There are seven Weasley children: Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred,
> > > George, Ron, and Ginny.
> >
> > Secca adds:
> > Jo said somewhere in an interview that she was playing off the
> > old "seventh son of a seventh son" myth... Ginny is the first
> > female in a while in the Weasley family, and is the seventh
> > daughter... <snip>
> 
> Sarah:
> I just figured out that seven is the number of times Hogwarts
> had to send letters to Harry with the seventh time being brought
> by Hagrid. I know this means nothing. I just thought I'd point
> it out.

Geoff:
It's more than seven times. Here's my rollcall:

1: The first one addressed to "The Cupboard under the stairs".
2: After the room move, one addressed to "The Smallest Bedroom".
3: Three letters after he treads on Vernon who is hiding behind the front door.
4: Twelve letters on Friday.
5: Twenty-fours letters on Saturday.
6: No post on Sunday but the thirty or forty letters down the chimney.
7: The hundred or so letters addressed to "Room 17, Railview Hotel".
8: The letter brought by Hagrid addressed to "The Floor, Hut-on-the-Rock"

So I think we can safely cross that one off the "sevens" list.