How many students go to Hogwarts?

[jferer]

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From: jferer
Subject: Re: How many students go to Hogwarts?
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6344] Re: How many students go to Hogwarts?
Date: 8/8/00 11:38 pm  (ET)

You have a point, but I still have trouble with it. There were 100
carriages to take the 2nd through 7th years up to school from Hogsmeade
station, and the first years went in boats. Each carriage holds at least
four (Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville shared one) That's 400; add the
first years in the boats, assuming the same average, and you've got 467.


It also doesn't seem to fit with JKR's world in other ways for Hogwarts
to be so small. It would suggest that either the wizard population of
the UK and Ireland is very small, or their birthrate is very low (no
evidence of that), or Hogwarts is much more exclusive than we've been
led to believe. (I'd like to look up the UK's birth rate and apply it to
the wizarding world; I will Real Soon Now). where did they get 100,000
people to fill the Quidditch World Cup stadium, and a lot of wizards
didn't go? That many foreigners?

My daughter's elementary school has more students than Hogwarts under
the 200-300 scenario, and it's not a big school. The Hogwarts students
must be totally lost in that huge castle, and most of the rooms unused,
or very secret...