[HPforGrownups] Number of students

[Dinah]

No: HPFGUIDX 7956

> So where are the other Griffindor boys Harry's age?  Of course we only
meet
> a handful of students due to the limitations of space and attention.  But
it
> does seem that there are only 5 Griffindor boys in Harry's year--him and
his
> 4 roommates.  It's certainly possible that there are others in another
dorm,
> but put the various mentions of these 5 together with the problem of 70+
> students in a classroom and 1000 seems high.

That came to me when I read about the Gryffindor/Slytherin Quidditch match
(in PoA, I think). If you count 3/4 in Gryffindor color, but 200 in
Slytherin (that's the numbers given) you get a lot more people than actually
*are* in the school if you take the Gryffindor-House youths of Harry's age
as an example (278 if you multiply with 4 Houses, 7 classes). I first
thought that maybe people from Hogsmeade would come to the match - I mean,
everyone loves Quidditch and they wouldn't miss a game.

But as Jo said there are 1000 pupils it leaves me puzzled as well.

Dinah