Cormac Mclaggen?!?

[James]

No: HPFGUIDX 168389

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finks213" <finks213 at ...> wrote:
>
> I don't understand how Harry - a 6th year Gryffindor student - has
> never met Cormac Mclaggen, a 7th year Gryffindor student...
>
> They've been living together for five years, and there aren't that
> many students in each house. I would understand if she'd just never
> mentioned him, but JKR actually says that Cormac is a Gryffindor
> student who Harry had never met before.....
>
> strange....or just silly...


James:
Remember, JKR seems convinced that there are a thousand students at Hogwarts, all being taught by a handful of "teachers" and not only don't the houses talk to each other, but the classes even in-house don't talk to each other very much. Add this to the Harry filter that
does not have time to take in people who are not either actively helping or hurting him, and there are lots of students that Harry has never noticed.

James