Prefects

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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No: HPFGUIDX C4660
From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Prefects
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4600] Re: Prefects
Date: 7/20/00 3:06 am  (ET)

> I assume that as there were 20 broomsticks out for the Gryffindor and
Slytherin flying lesson and as there are 20 cauldrons in potion lessons
that there are 10 students per year per house. This would equate to 70
students per house.

Everything JKR shows up matches up with those numbers, EXCEPT 200
Slytherin supporter and 600 Slytherin opposers at one year's final
Quidditch match and the size of the castle's dining hall -- but think how
tiny the population of wizarding Britain (maybe plus Ireland) must be if
there are only 40 people born each year! I think there are probably 30
to 40 new students each year in each House, but they were editted out
for novelistic reasons. Um. If 150 people are born each year and they
normally live to age 100, the population would be 15,000....