Prefects...n'stuff

[jenP_97]

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From: jenP_97
Subject: Re: Prefects...n'stuff
Reply To: [Yahoo! #4698] Prefects...n'stuff
Date: 7/20/00 5:44 pm  (ET)

>>Perhaps some older students travel up earlier, use other modes of
transport, or apparate right into their dorm beds.<<

(Takes on a Hermione tone) "But you know you can't apparate or disapparate
into Hogwarts!"

Hehe... sorry - I could just hear her saying that in my head. The voices,
you know, they never stop...

I'd also like to comment on the whole population thing. I never got the
impression that there's a set number of students in each house - that they
have to be *even*. I think it may just be a coincidence that Slytherin
and Gryffindor have 10 students each in Harry's year... and who's to say
that there are exactly 40 first-years every year? By the sorting in GoF it
looks like the majority are Hufflepuffs - and I saw VERY few Gryffindors
at all. However, that being said, around 300 students at a time sounds
about right... so maybe there is just an *average* of 40 students a year,
and an *average* of 10 students per house. I can't imagine the Sorting
Hat telling someone like Ron whose last name starts with a 'W' that he
has to go into Hufflepuff because the Gryffindor dorm is already full. ;)

Jen