[HPforGrownups] How many students at Hogwarts?

[bloubet at incanmonkey.com]

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Suzanne says:
>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.

I was actually going to post something to this effect (agreeing with you), but when I checked canon, I changed my mind. The way it's phrased in PS/SS, when Harry and the other Gryffindors are led to their room, is:

"Percy directed the girls through one door to their dormitory and the boys through another. At the top of a spiral staircase -- they were obviously in one of the towers -- they found their beds at last: five four-posters hung with deep red, velvet curtains."

This sounds to me like he directed ALL of the Gryffindor boys through their door, and they ALL found their beds -- five of them.

I'll be happy to be talked out of this, if we can find canon to the contrary. <grin>

bel