Hogwarts Size (sort of) and special classes.

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 18625

Stephanie wrote:
"For example, I graduated from the University of Kentucky (GO CATS!), 
where there are some 30,000 students and around 1500 full-time 
facutly.  If you heard me tell many undergrad stories, you might come 
away thinking that there were  only a few prof.s and a few students 
and only one bar.  Because, I just didn't know the people that took 
the Biology classes, and I only knew a handful of people in my 
massive dorm.  My POV focuses almost entirely on the History and 
Political Science Departments and classes -- and that's certainly not 
everyone who was there.  Okay, anecdotal evidence, I'm ready to be 
slammed."

--Stephanie makes a good point. :-) It all comes back to the idea of 
Harry's POV. I attend a rather small secondary school, about 750 
people which is supposedly even smaller than Hogwarts, and still I 
don't know even half those people.  It doesn't suprise me that we 
don't see that many people even if the Hogwarts size is 1000. What 
suprises me is that there aren't more people supposedly in Harry's 
house. Despite those people may not be mentioned often the fact they 
are seemingly non-existent.

One thing is that the people I know are also the ones I share 
classes  with. If Snape teaches more than one 4th year Potions class, 
as he must for 1000 students, are some more difficult than others? At 
my school we have College Prep (CP), Honours (HR), and Advanced 
Placement (AP) classes. Each is more difficult than the other. Are 
British secondary schools arranged like this? Would Hogwarts be? 

We don't really get any evidence in this except that as the years go 
by they are able to choose different classes, and some may be more 
difficult than others. 

Scott