HWGA -- Number of students

[jferer]

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No: HPFGUIDX C6799
From: jferer
Subject: HWGA -- Number of students
Date: 8/13/00 8:18 pm  (ET)

In "The Yule Ball", GoF, the Great Hall is laid out with "about a
hundred" twelve-person tables. Having attended about a zillion meetings
and conferences, that's a BIG hall.

Why so many tables? They've got a lot of outside guests; maybe even some
parents, though JKR doesn't mention it. It certainly does argue, though,
for a higher student population than 300.

You only need about eight average per gender/year/house to get to
450-500. I still think that's a reasonable number, and it's still a
small school.