[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of Students

[Aberforth's Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 8137

> Oh, excellent thought! A purpose, albeit twisted, behind the great numbers
of
> killings. Has anyone in the books ever said *why* Voldemort was murdering?
It
> sounded like he kind of was rampaging, and usually there's a
reason.....and I've
> always suggested that each year's classes at Hogwarts are not "X number of
> students" but "all the students who qualify," which makes sense according
to how
> the students are selected, and would make it almost certain that the size
of
> class differed from year to year.

Oooooo goody! I've come up with a real, bona fida theory! <basking in warm
fuzzy feelings>

I don't really believe it though. How come, in four whole year at Hogwarts,
neither Harry nor anyone else has remarked how small his class is? And also:
HWMNBM must be an equal opportunity killer, since he apparently thinned out
the girls just as thoroughly as he did the boys, and the future Slytherins
just as mercilessly as the up-and-coming Gryffs.

Still, it just might be ... and it could explain a few things ...

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/aberforths_goat

>
> So Harry's class is small, perhaps unusually so, and the reason is that
some of
> the population their age was murdered. I wonder, did the Muggles that
Voldemort
> killed have past wizarding progeny?
>
> --Amanda
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