Scholastic chat/ what did we learn from this?

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 3797

> 
> 
> > The 1000 students is closer to the number (800 or so) that I 
always
> > imagined, but she didn't give info on how many kids per year, or 
how
> > many teachers there are.
> 
> The 1000 students seemed off-the-cuff & not well-thought out to 
me.  How
> do you explain that Harry has such a small class if there are really
> 1000 students there?  That would be 150 students per year, which 
works
> out to be roughly 35 per House per year.  Why would there only be 8
> Gryffindors that year if there should be closer to 35?  Makes *no* 
sense
> to me.
> 

Well let's see, there are 7 years. So about 140 students in each year.
If there are 7 classes in each year about 20 students per class.