Pupils per year (per house.)

[Hollydaze]

No: HPFGUIDX 30328

> Here is a mistake concerning the books that no one has picked up on 
> yet. Let's say there were 200 people in each house. That means about
> 86 people per year. Half of those would be boys, so about 43 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?

How did you work it out as 86 people per year per house? 
There are 7 years in each house at Hogwarts so surely that would mean 
you would have to divide 200 by 7 to get the number of people in each 
year (per house) which would give you about 28. This would mean that 
there would be about 14 boys in Harry's Gryffindor year (which surely 
is still too high given that we have been told about THE Gryffindor 
dormitory, not A Gryffindor dormitory, plus we have been told there 
are five beds)

HOLLYDAZE!!!