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

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 48167

 
 I have a hard time rationalizing this topic, and I know everyone does, and I know it has been done to death.  But I think it will always be done to death, because we HAVE to figure it out.  Anyway, I think the concept that Harry's generation is a little light because of Voldemort's reign of terror is interesting.  I mean we really do not know how many people LV and his followers killed, though I find it hard to imagine that it was so many that it significantly changed the population number.
Ok, but say you COULD rationalize the numbers by saying the that Harry's year of Gryffindors and Slytherins were pure anomalies.  What I can't get over is the sheer size of first-year classes, if 1,000 is the correct figure.  We are talking average classes of 70 students.  Okay, it is possible, not unheard of at the university level.  But take into account that there can be such extreme fluctations in class numbers, that Gryffindor could have ten students one year, down from an average of 35, and you are dealing with a range of "double" classes from 20 to 130+ students per class.  
 
ANGELA (who HATES this issue, but has bits of paper with scribbled calculations littering her floor)



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