In the Great Hall, the Hogwarts professors ate at the High Table—so-called because the table and the professors’ chairs set atop an eighteen-inch-tall dais. Between the dais and the seventh-years end of the four House tables was a gap. In 1969, before Voldemort had started the (First) Blood War, the gap had been only ten feet (so Randolph had read in Hogwarts: A History), but in 1995, the gap looked to be about thirty feet.