[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Class size discrepancy of DADA & Relative School SIze

[Shaun Hately]

On 16 Jul 2004 at 21:48, Steve wrote:

> We have too small a window into size of individual class years, but
> it's illogical to assume they are identical. 

Not necessarily.

Personally I reconcile the discrepancies between the size of the 
school in a somewhat similar way - I assume that Hogwarts, at 
capacity, has around 1000 students, and that for some reason at 
present (as seen in the HP books) it's not operating at capacity. 
If I had to come up with a reason I'd say it's because of a lack of 
available teachers.

But when dealing with a selective school (as Hogwarts seems to be) 
it's not illogical by any means to assume identical or near 
identical class sizes. It depends on the standards of selection - 
but with a selective school where it's the only school serving a 
particular population and there seems to be less places than there 
are potential students, I'd expect it to have pretty similar, if 
not identical, class sizes each year.

There's logical reasons why that might *not* be the case - but 
there's perefectly logical reasons why it could be.

As anyone who waded through my recent megapost on the mainlist 
(which received very few replies... sigh) will know, precisely how 
Hogwarts operates is something I spend a great deal thinking about. 
To me, that's a very interesting topic and things like the class 
size issue make it even more interesting.




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