1000 hogwarts students, but so little in harry's year, my opinion

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Joris was discussing how many pupils are at Hogwarts - and due to the 
Voldemort scare, there ought tob e less.  this does ring true - 
however, in a quidditch match, it is said that there were '200 
Slytherin fans' at one end.  Now, we could argue that Slytherin 
parents would have had babies at this point without fear!  But, as I 
presume the houses must be roughly equal in the amount o, we can only 
assume that there are 800 pupils in the school.
This, however, does not tally with Harry's class - there appears to 
be just 10 in itt who wants to nitpick - I'm sure there are more in 
the year/class, it's just that it wouldurintroduce us to too many 
additional, non-central characters - we just wouldn't care about 
them, and wouldn't get any depth at all.  

But enough of this pedantacism [have made up spelling of that]
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