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  1. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Yes, because that's how normal people think isn't it. Let's see:
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 22, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  2. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    At the end of OotP, Voldemort was revealed to the public, which could have resulted in a loss of students, possibly even a large number of them, nullifying the need of one. Also, my point was that there was at least one known way the argument could be called into question, and therefore is not definitive. I was going for absurd here. My point was that the idea of a very large number of unmentioned professors seems equally absurd to me. This is something I can agree with.
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 22, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  3. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    There's no such thing as a magical core.
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 22, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  4. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Perhaps I am, but to understanding is that the OP wanted to do this without making it AU, which I take to mean without disregarding canon evidence. As far as I can see, the idea that there could be a large number of unmentioned teachers completely ignores all the evidence to the contrary in canon. It's not based on some ambiguous idea available in canon, like the possibility of using a time turner, but assumes that the narrator was unreliable to the point where the entire idea of a 'canon...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 22, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  5. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    I don't really consider the issue trivial. Like you said earlier, in order to have a 1000 students, you need to be able to teach them somehow. As such, it becomes an important problem. Agreed Agreed. Canon facts don't support this. If a student can attend 3 classes simultaneously. 12 teachers can definitely be in 17 classes simultaneously. I'm not saying that time turners are a likely solution, or even a realistic one, but to assume something that is directly contradicted in canon as a...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 22, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  6. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    No, not really. What I'm doing is that saying there are two possibilities, and you stated both in your earlier post, the possibility and the actuality: 1) The Possibility: If there are more students, there MIGHT be more professors While this case is possible, there isn't any evidence in canon to consider it. In fact, canon facts that I have stated in my previous posts suggest against considering this possibility. While it's not a definite proof, combined with the fact that there isn't...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  7. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Agreed 'Must': This is what I don't agree with. Just because we don't have other explanations, doesn't mean they can't possibly exist. It seems like a logical conclusion, but there is no evidence to suggest the case. Agreed I haven't managed to prove the impossibility, yet what I'm saying is that there isn't enough evidence to even consider the need for proving such a thing. I find the problem in your conclusion that because there are more students there must be more professors....
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  8. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Actually, you did propose something. To be specific: I even agree with this partly, just not when the number of professors would be as proportionally large as the number of students, which I assume it would have to be. The idea that there are about 1000 students very likely requires more than five or possibly ten times the number of professors we see in canon. Such a large number of teachers existing without a shred of evidence is just not reasonably believable. Also, what I'm...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  9. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    First of all, I'm only referring to the sorting feast arrangements, or other important events like revealing of the Goblet and not everyday arrangements. In the scenes that I have referred to, the focus has been on the table where Dumbledore is on, and therefore the most prominent one. This assumes that the judges would be Happy to share the space at the prominent table, especially the judges from the Ministry. Doesn't even remotely sound like them. It also assumes that the extra...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  10. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Your idea of context requires familiarity with the system. The idea that Harry's unreliability causes him to miss multiple tables when he sees them for the first time defies imagination. Do note that it will have to be multiple tables and not just two, to accommodate the large gap of unmentioned professors. There is also ample evidence that points to the fact that the multiple tables theory can't be true: 1. When the Goblet was revealed, two chairs were added to each side of the...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  11. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    The only time the staff table is specified in plural is during the Yule ball. That aside, by that logic Dumbledore might as well have been evil all along with the narrator being too unreliable to notice it. For all we know, shitfics actually have it right.
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  12. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    I think it's more that the extent to which I consider the narrator unreliable is much less than is needed to explain the large number of unmentioned professors. That scene I mentioned in GoF has Harry looking specifically from one professor to the other and mentions that they are sitting next to each other. Is it reasonable to assume that the narrator is unreliable in specifically mentioning professors are sitting right next to each other, or that Dumbledore is at the center? The...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  13. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Not exactly, but we can make a guess. In GoF, Harry scans the staff table 'more carefully' during the opening feast. He starts with Flitwick and goes on to mention Sprout, Sinistra and Snape sitting beside each other, followed by McGonagall's empty seat and ending with Dumbledore at the center. Since he was scanning carefully, we can assume that he started with Flitwick at one end. We also know from the same chapter that three seats were empty before the sorting. One was McGonagall, which...
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 21, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
  14. NuScorpii
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    Unmentioned professors who don't bother to come to the meals in the Great Hall, especially during start of term feasts. Isn't that a little far-fetched?
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 20, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Ways to Expand the Wizarding World

    How do you explain this with the number of professors at Hogwarts? The student to faculty ratio would be ridiculous. :confused:
    Post by: NuScorpii, May 20, 2015 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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