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I wonder if the professor is really small, or are the guards giants?
So ya they were pretty big.
I think it is a little of column A and a little of column B. Wish one of them was holding a banana or something for scale.
I would say a lot of columb B. It makes sense for guards to be big, for intimidation alone. After all, the best case is that the guards don't need to fight at all, but keep people with their mere presence from doing something stupid. Being big and imposing is certainly a desirable trait.
According to this article the guards are 2.23m / 7'4" and 2.36m / 7'9" tall. The taller one on the right is standing a bit closer to the camera, so I'll use the other one to measure the prof. Allowing for a bit of imprecision since it's hard to tell exactly where the guard's heel and head are under his clothing, I get the prof being 80% of the guard's height. This puts him at a pretty ordinary 1.79m / 5'10"
Guards are huge. Both well over 7 foot, tallest men in Kashmir at the time, supposedly