OOP Chapter 9-10 post DH look

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No: HPFGUIDX 182855

> > Alla:
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>> > So, 21x20 that makes it 420 Deatheaters. Huh, JKR? Did I 
miscount?
> 
> Carol:
> I counted 22 (including both Prewett brothers), not including 
whoever
> took the photograph and anyone who was absent that day (or already
> killed). But, yeah. Outnumbered twenty to one makes no sense even
> after the deaths and disappearances that Moody mentioned. Maybe it
> should have been two to one? (I can just see JKR writing out a check
> for a thousand pounds to pay her one-hundred pound electirc 
bill . . .
> .) Or is it Lupin who can't count or multiply? ;-)
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Alla:

Well, somebody certainly cannot count. Funnily, I think this 
miscalculation for me is the first of its kind. Basically for me it 
is the very first one that grates on me and quite strongly.

Usually bad maths of Potterverse do not pull me out of the story at 
all.

JKR going between thousand number and hundred number for Hogwarts 
students? Sure, in my mind Hogwarts hall is expendable enough, class 
rooms can appear as rooms of requirements, etc. I do not care, I am 
fine with it.

Weasleys ages? I really really do not care, since to me it is such 
minor stuff that no matter what ages are assigned to them, to me it 
does not matter one bit.

And here is probably the best way to show how very indifferently I 
feel about other math inconsistencies in the books. I honestly do not 
remember what other math inconsistencies are there, despite the fact 
that we probably discussed them many times on list.

My answer always was - whatever, could  care less, does not lessen my 
enjoyment of the story.

For some bizarre reason this one pulls me out of the story.

I mean, 420 deatheaters? Oh **please**. Where do we see any 
indication that there are at least 100 DE in existance? And didn't 
she say that all WW of Britain is between 2000 - 3000 people all 
together? Did I dream it up? 

Shouldn't we have seen that huge army somewhere?

I mean, Okay this was supposedly in the first war, but still that 
would mean that a lot of them should have come back to Voldemort, yes?

They really could not have been killed, even majority of them could 
not, since Order was so overpowered.

Alla