Number of students

[yael oren]

No: HPFGUIDX 7952

Hi,

In one of the Gryffindor-Slytherin Quidditch matches (don't remember which one, and I don't have the books here) It says that everyone on the stands were cheering to Gryffindor team, except for the 200 Slytherins on their side of the stands. By my calculation, that means ~30 students per year (including the 7 players, who were not sitting), which sounds like a reasonably sized class.

This makes sense?

yael


  Date: 27 Dec 2000 16:07:28 -0800
  From: voicelady at mymailstation.com
  Subject: Re: Number of students

  On Wed, 27 December 2000, "Kassie Ostrander" wrote:

  > In CoS though, when Griffidore 2nd years have Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, there are about 20 pairs of earmuffs meaning that there are about 20 student with the two groups combined.  

  In PS/SS there are also only 20 brooms in the flying lesson.  *I* think that Jo was caught off-guard with the "how many students are there" question, and she just threw out an answer to appease the crowd.  I don't think that she's analyzed the details as much as we have! <g> ;-p

  If we go by the clues from the books, it seems to me that there should be no more than 350-400 students in the school.

  Jeralyn, the Voicelady
  current book: "Winter's Heart" by Robert Jordan
  Current CD: the Beatles' 1


Thanks, yael

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