[HPforGrownups] Re: # of Students

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 3855

Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer wrote:

> Uh . . . there are only 4 Houses per year, so that's 35 students per
> House per year under the 1000 students total numbers.  Why would
> Gryffindor only get 8 if they should have closer to 35?  That's *way*
> off in my mind.

Well, I forgot who did that nice discussion, but I agree that the wizarding
world was apparently a bit, um, depleted by Voldemort, which is one reason.
Another is that I always got the impression that Hogwarts took the magically
gifted, however many there were that filled the bill. The number of gifted
Muggles and the number of wizard kids born in any given year will vary. Why
should class size be regular? Harry's year might be a small one, other years
might be larger, the total's around 1000.

Make sense?

--Amanda