"Yeah, I get what you're saying, but most towers only have entrances on one floor, so say that you have the North tower, the only entrance is the trap door on six. Ravenclaw tower only on five, and so on and so forth. So if you have people on all seven floors, only the one on that one floor will have access to the tower. Also, you'll have to protect all seven floor, plus the tower. While we have less people than before. Sure, it's easier to patrol, but if there's an attack, you split the civilians and they become impossible to protect."
He sighed, knowing that there wasn't a perfect solution, because they had used that one. "The Bell towers are really the only options that the ones that actually let us go all the way down to the green house, and they are connected between them without getting into the castle for any reason. We can try to fit as many people as possible there. There's also an entry to the first floor, we can change a room in there, turn it into a smaller version of the Great Hall. I think you need common meals. It makes people feel like they are part of something, and you'll have to remind them that when we're just taking away a lot of their freedoms."