Number of pupils at Hogwarts ?miscalculation?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jennifer Kington" <jenrose981 at h...> wrote:
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> >From: radius_squared at h...
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> >Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Number of pupils at Hogwarts 
?miscalculation?
> >Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:09:52 -0000
I wrote:
> >Here is a mistake concerning the books that no one has picked up on
> >yet. Let's say there were 300 people in each house. That means 
about
> >44 people per year. Half of those would be boys, so about 22 boys 
per
> >year per house. When Harry mentions his "dorm," there are at most 7 
or
> >eight boys in his year, while, according to statistics, there 
should
> >be at least 40. Did I make a stupid mistake and miss something, or
> >have I made a point?
> >
> >-Hannah
> >
Was replied:

JKR said there were about 1000 students at 
Hogwarts. 
> Later when discussing the movie, I think she changed and said there 
were 
> about 400. She probably realized, like a lot of us, that 1000 
students would 
> be impossible. 

Now me again:
400 hundred students would be about right. That would be 100 people 
per house, 15 per year, and 8 boys. That fits my vision of hogwarts a 
lot better, considering only about 2 fourth year girl in Gryffindor 
have been mentioned. 

-Hannah