# of Students Each Year

[brooksindy]

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From: brooksindy
Subject: Re: # of Students Each Year
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6265] # of Students Each Year
Date: 8/8/00 5:11 pm  (ET)

I am inclined to agree that the number is more than 280 or so. For one
thing, I've been going through the copy of Philosopher's Stone that
vjmerri/Vicki brought me from the UK (we know each other in person)
looking for the differences -
(Dudley's new word in Chapter 1: UK edition: "Shan't", US edition:
"Won't"; 'bogies' in the UK but 'boogers' in the US. :-), and I need to
cross-correlate some of the Muggle candy to see if that is different
in the US vice the UK versions - my Sorceror's Stone is lent out to a
different friend at the moment) -
 but anyway, I noticed, since the subject of numbers is in discussion,
 that JKR says "Hundreds of (students') faces" in the sorting hat
 chapter. Now "hundreds" sounds like it should be more like 400-500+,
 than 2-300, but of course that is hardly exact. Also, we do not know
 that there weren't names on the first-years list that were omitted from
 the recitation during sorting in Book I, as Harry is distracted quite
 a bit of the time....