to think Hogwarts is actually a really small school?

[FlutteringButterflie]

I watch the film earlier and realised in Griffindor in Harry's year there were only 5 boys and 3 girls. There are 4 houses so probably about 40 pupils per year.

7 years, so about 280 pupils - not really that many when you think about it.

[geek]

I saw that on your FB Boob and my copies are now on my list of things to pick up when I go back to Essex

Tee Not surprised by that, ff.net bollocksed up big time and didn't give a shit about it.

Electronics and magic don't mix. That does come up at some point. I think hermione mentions it in goblet of fire.

Yes, and on a practical MN note, its something you shouldn't forget when your DCs ask Santa to bring them expensive electronic gadgets. They simply won't survive a magical sleigh ride

ff.net panicked about NC-17/FRM/x-rated fic after LJ did rather than doing what LJ did, which was make a reader declare they were old enough to read it. It was totally idiotic.

Problem Fluttering?

I've often wondered about Sirius. I'm sure he was meant to be in Gryffindor with James (though I accept I may be mistaken as it's been a while!), but Hagrid says also this:
"there wasn't a witch or wizard went bad that wasn't in Slytherin house"
in the 1st book, when they believed Sirius had murdered PP and a dozen or so muggles...

Always bothered me, that one

What do you mean Fluttering ???

Everyone seems to be talking in a different language. I have no idea what ff.net even is.

And everything I've said since my OP has been ignored. Meh.

Carry on, I got lost during page 2.

ConfusedPixie You read the Dangerverse too!I've never seen anyone who reads it!

That's the way of internet forums,fluttering.

Flutter ff.net is a site dedicated to fan fiction. Stories written about characters from other authors work. In this case potter and all that.

I think you need some

Most people are accepting your points and bringing their own to the thread. No one is deliberately ignoring your points. Or not me at least!

at both the genius Grimma and Mermaid

I always tried to work out Hagrid's parent's relationship but decided it was best left unimagined

Tee I vaguely remember that, they also changed around a lot of other things and the layout. My stories were innocent! Pft.

The American dates really annoyed me. I used to use reviews to mark my place in stories and they'd put the update date next to it. Great when the dates were backwards English style (13-09-25 for example) so then you could ctrl-F and pop in "13-09-2" to get anything from the 20th-29th of September, but then they made it American so you had to do each date differently, and when you could only catch up once a month you'd end up trawling through the list manually :(

Elevander Of course! It's one of the best FF.net alt universes out there! It's the one I've continued reading, though I need to reread it from the beginning :)

Flutter No need to flounce, it's a discussion that's been derailed a bit!

Hagrids parentage...

Can't have been a very fulfilling relationship for his mother!

Flutter No need to flounce, it's a discussion that's been derailed a bit!

I'm not (well not really) I just don't have much to add to the thread as it's gone over my head slightly. Obviously there are bigger fans who know a lot more about it than me, and have more interesting points.

It's only because I stated 3 points and got ignored on every one. I don't care that it's been derailed from the original question.

She did die. Killed by Fenrir.

Has this kicked off? What a shame.

Hogwarts OFSTED report is here

No mention of free school meals, EAL or Pupil Premium though.

Confused I need to reread it too! I've semi forgotten some of the plot points.
This is a Cracked article that refers to Hagrids cough 'interesting' parentage www.cracked.com/article_19397_the-5-most-depraved-sex-scenes-implied-by-harry-potter_p2.html

Has this kicked off? What a shame

No. I made a flouncing point and people politely responded.

Someone made a Hogwarts OFSTED? WTAF?

I have just discovered (having not seen the films 5, 6, 7 and 8) that they changed Lavender in the films. Not only did they change the actress who played her in the earlier films, they changed her to a Caucasian actress for the later films Surely people noticed that?!

Oh, sorry OP, my mistake.

The OFSTED thing is obviously a joke and written by a fan.