[HPFGU-OTChatter] Size of HW (was British school system)

[Terry James]

>From: "psychic_serpent" <psychic_serpent at yahoo.com>
>>
>--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Terry James"
><terryljames at h...> wrote:
> > I've never really understood this assumption.  I always assumed
> > that, for instance, there are several first-year Gryffindor
> > Herbology classes, not just the one that we happen to see with
> > Harry.
>
>What would give you this impression?  There's absolutely no
>indication that there are Gryffindor students in Harry's year that
>we don't know about. >

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,' but there's no reason to believe that there are unnamed
>Gryffindors who've been in the same year with Harry all this time,
>living in other dormitories and taking classes at other times.  The
>text simply does not support this assertion.
>
>--Barb

The enormous dining room packed with students; the "hundreds" of squashy 
purple sleeping bags that
D-dore conjured up; the "fleet" of boats and "line" of horseless 
carriages...all of the descriptions of all the students as a group really 
give me an image of lots of kids.  If there are ten kids to a year, then 
there are only seventy Gryffindors; so either there are only 280 kids at 
Hogwarts, or Gryffindor is a very small house.  Or, Harry's year is very 
small for some reason (lots of people killed by DEs?)  But since it's never 
spelled out that Harry has a small year, or G. has a small house, I just 
drew on my own experience at school.  There were many kids at my school who 
were in my "class" (that is, my year) but not in any of my "classes".  I 
never even knew their names.

Terry LJ

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