My Theory on the Number of Hogwarts students

[cornflower_o_shea]

No: HPFGUIDX 31546

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:

> It varies yes but it doesn't vary so much that there would be (10 
x 4 =) 40 people in Harry's year and (1000-40 = 960. 960 /6 =) 160 
in every other year (the only way it could still total 1000) numbers 
are only aprox but that is still a VERY big gap, even taking LV and 
his rein of terror as depleeting numbers in Harry's year, surely he 
would have done the same to the other years as well? Why would it 
suddenly change in one year? It could be steady decline I suppose 
with their being a VERY high numbe rof pupils in Percy's year (going 
by book 1-3) which slowly decreases until you get to the "40" in 
Harry's year but it seems unlikely that it would dip that much.
> 

I don't know. I'd have thought twice about having a kid at 
Voldemort's height of power!

-Cornflower O'Shea