My Theory on the Number of Hogwarts students

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No: HPFGUIDX 31551

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cornflower_o_shea" <tenpinkpiggies at h...> 
wrote:
> --- 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!

Many kids lost their parents, but had others to care for them. Thus 
there were more "pure-blood"-kids the earlier years. Also Fred&George 
aren't the only twins in their year..

And... what of the muggle-born kids?