number of students at Hogwarts

[Severina Amadenna Salem-Snape]

from the lexicon website:

There are actually about three hundred, it would seem, although there 
is plenty of debate on the subject. Here's the evidence from the 
books themselves: 
·	There are more or less ten students (depending on the 
vagarities of the Sorting) in each house per year, five boys and five 
girls. 
o	There are twenty broomsticks lying on the ground awaiting the 
first year Gryffindors and Slytherins for their first flying lesson, 
which bears that number out. 
o	A double class of potions--Gryffindor and Slytherin--has 
twenty cauldrons set up. 
o	For a double class of herbology--Gryffindor and Hufflepuff--
Professor Sprout has twenty pairs of earmuffs ready. 

·	If there are more Gryffindors of that year, isn't it strange 
that we haven't heard about them in four years' worth of books? Not a 
one has spoken up in class, has been part of any parties or 
activities in the common room, or anything like that. Judging by the 
numbers cited above for herbology, flying, and potions, they must not 
even be in the same classes. If there are any others, where in the 
world are they? We do have evidence of two more girls, but they have 
been awfully quiet. 
·	Assuming the ten students per house per year numbers, that 
would work out to forty students per year for a total of about 280 
students. This meshes with the several times that Harry 
sees "hundreds" of people in the Great Hall (in SS when Harry is 
Sorted and GF when he's chosen for the tournament, for example). 

hope that helps answer some questions - Sassy

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Severina Amadenna Salem-Snape" 
<onceupona_party at y...> wrote:
> Sassy comments ***According to Steve (hp-lexicon) when he spoke at 
> the Ottawa Convention Alley he believed there were be somewhere 
> between 300-400 students, because when JKR saw the first film with 
> the 300-400 kids she said it was exactly how she imagined it. That 
is 
> how he arrived at how many students attended Hogwarts. Just thought 
I 
> would share!
> 
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