Number of students, again

[jferer]

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Date: 8/17/00 6:46 pm  (ET)

There's no reason to think the houses are uniform in number. The Sorting
Hat places people where they belong, and the number of entering students
varies.

JKR said in an interview that a magical quill writes down the name of
each magical child born, and then Professor McGonagall checks it each
year and send out letters to the ones turning eleven.