Hogwarts size

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 12458

Hogwarts has 142 staircases (PS). It is also described as 'vast'. It 
takes (estimated by Ron in PoA) ten minutes to get from the great 
Hall to Prof. Trelawneys room. The thing must be really big. If there 
are only 280 students (10 per house x 4 houses x 7 years) then they 
would really rattle around a castle that big. Also there are 
continual references to the corridors being very busy between 
lessons. If the castle was that big with the classes being so spread 
out (down in the dungeons, up in Trelawneys tower, etc.) the 
corridors really wouldn't be crowded. Therefore there must be alot 
more students. 1000 seems like a good figure.
Also, we're never told the dimensions of a Quidditch pitch, but even 
if the entire school of, say, 280 students turned up to every match, 
the stadium would be pretty empty; there certainly would not be the 
atmosphere JKR injects into the game. You need the best part of 1000 
spectators even to make a small stadium atmospheric.



Dai