[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Bigger names + bigger pay = smaller budget?

[Sherry Garfio]

--- huntergreen_3 <patientx3 at aol.com> wrote:
> In any case, no other male student is *ever* mentioned as being in 
> their year besides the others in their dorm. I've heard that quote of 
> hers before, and have also been confused by it (I agree with the 
> notion of 280 students). Perhaps it means that the school has a 
> *capacity* of 1000 students. 

It's also possible that there was a significant decrease in the birth rate
while Voldemort was in power, followed by a baby boom after his demise.  This
would make Harry's class among the smallest, and the classes starting 2 years
after his would be larger.  The classes that were nearing graduation in the
first 2 books could also be a bit larger.  Most of the kids Harry knows are
within a year of his age (except the older Weasleys and Cedric), so we would
never notice that the other classes are bigger.

I also suspect that Gryffindor and Slytherin are smaller than the other houses,
particularly Hufflepuff (although there don't seem to be an abundance of
Hufflepuffs in Harry's year, as evidenced by the 20 sets of earmuffs in
Herbology).  Since the most accurate count we have is for Gryffindor, any
estimate extrapolated from that number would be on the low side.  Still, I
can't quite come up with 1000 students.  Maybe it's capacity, as you say - in
the good ol' days before Voldemort, the school served 1000 students, and may
again someday.

Sherry Garfio


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"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
    -- Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire





		
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