Number of stu... teachers!

[flying_ford_anglia]

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From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Number of stu... teachers!
Date: 8/10/00 1:25 am  (ET)

Re the 'number of students' debate, I think we should consider the
number of teachers at Hogwarts. By my calculations there are only 12,
one per topic, and some of those teach subjects that aren't options for
the younger students. There's only so much a dozen teachers can do in
a day, unless they all use time-turners.

If there were many more than 200 students, either the frequency of
individual year-classes would be very low or the number of students per
class would have to be so large as to suggest splitting them into two
or three groups, at least in the first two years. There is no evidence
that there are more than two classes per student-year for any topic,
so the number of students per class dictates the school population:
Almost certainly under 300 and likely to be nearer 200.

Now, anyone care to speculate on there being a gaggle of as-yet-unseen
teachers?

Neil (fast becoming an unterposter)