[HPforGrownups] How many students at Hogwarts? (yes, again) (was: How do they know?)

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 48166

> From: Ashfae [mailto:ashfae at technicaldetails.org]
> 	Actually, all we know from canon is that ten students were
> accepted into Gryffindor House during Harry's first year (and even that is
> a bit of an estimation, as there *could* be more than two unnamed
> Gryffindor girls along with Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender).

I don't believe that we can accept your statement as true. If I'm not
mistaken, which I often am, we can only assume that in Harry's class in
Gryffindor, there are *at least* the 5 boys that share the same dorm room
and *at least* 3 girls.  There are lots of Gryffindors that are never named,
and I see no reason that some of the never-named Gryffindors belong to
Harry's class.

Suzanne, who always tries to believe that what JKR says is true, mostly