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

[Pinguthegreek]

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.

The point is that most private schools in the UK are not so big. I am sure that JKR would have made it clearer by now if Harry's year were bigger.

Also, if the boats are small, you still would need a fair few for 70. 

And the carriages only take 4 or so. 

You just have to bear in mind that Hogwarts is like a UK boarding school 

Michelle







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