# of Students

[mmarth at peoplepc.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 3867

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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


I really wonder if JKR ever thought there would be so many of us 
picking apart the book as we do especially we it comes to what some 
may consider minor details.  

Martha