Aidan of the tavern
Auror
Well we've all seen films that have those scenes, when an important person stands up to survey their thousands of followers and delivers a fine old speech. Then suddenly it clicked for me. Even if they are shouting, how on earth are people meant to here them? While it works fine without explanation in film, in real life people like the Romans used to give huge public speeches. Did they have some ancestor of the microphone? Or were speeches delivered in some sort of "echo" room?