[HPforGrownups] Re: re:Battle/Cloak/Apparate/Dobby/TMR/Virus/Shun/Boggart/Animagi/Squib//Bill/Sn

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 168427

On 5/7/07, Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> bboyminn:
> The 10x4x7=280 has always been a hopelessly flawed
> estimate. It assumes many facts that are not in evidence.
>
> bboyminn:
>
> I have always suspected that 1,000 was the capacity of
> Hogwarts, not its current enrollment. We see that there
> are many classrooms that are unused, and many areas that
> are being used for storage, that indicates that the
> school is /not/ at full capacity.

Random832:
1000 is not likely to be full capacity for a school that size - I went
to a high school that had over 3000 students and hogwarts definitely
seems like it's larger (or at least comparable, as an absolute
minimum) in terms of the size of the building.

So you think that the enrollment has to be significantly more than 280
but significantly less than 1000 (significant enough in both cases
that you put forward arguments against both numbers)?

> > Pippin:
> > ...
> >
> > My point was that whether or not Neville's fear is
> > rational is a separate issue from whether or not the
> > object of his fear should be shamed in front of the
> > class, and "he had it coming anyway" is hardly
> > something that Lupin is in a position to judge.
>
> bboyminn:
> [...]
> Neville's greatest fear was Snape, which makes sense,
> and while his classmates did get a laugh out of it, I
> think they fully understood it. I don't see Neville
> shamed,

Random832:
Wait, what?

Ah, I see what you're misinterpreting. he's saying that _Snape_ (the
object of his fear) was "shamed in front of the class", and it was
because in Lupin's eyes, Snape "had it coming".

--Random832