Pupils per year (per house.)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hollydaze" <hollydaze at b...> wrote:
> > 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. 
> 
> 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)
> 

There may not be an equal number of people in each year in each 
house, or even an equal number of people in each house. First, the 
number of new students is probably different each year. Second, the 
Sorting Hat puts people into houses based on whatever qualities it 
sees inside them, not with the aim of distributing them evenly among 
the houses. Some years a lot of the candidates might turn out to be 
Gryffindors, others just a few. So there really could be only five 
Gryffindor boys in Harry's year, but maybe 20 in the next year. Or 
maybe only 2. Or even none.