[HPforGrownups] Re: 1000 hogwarts students, but so little in harry's year, my opinion

[Yoris]

No: HPFGUIDX 35414

Well Harry's own generation is probably the smallest coz the year Harry was
born Voldemort was at the highest of his powers, the year after Harry's
probably already has some baby's from after-Voldemort, as they where
probably not scared for their childrens future on the start of Voldemorts
power cause they didn't know enough at that moment and they would probably
have thought of it as just a temporary things, but the longer his power
continued the more people feared it as going to last for a very long time...
probably the birth rates were like this:
years before Voldemort:
150
150
150
150 (only a little varriating, stable birth rates)
years while Voldemort was on power
145
140 (each year of voldemorts ruling people start getting more scared about
the longer-term future)
135
130
125
120
year Voldemort was defeated
115 (all the children from this year are still
howdoyoucallitinproperenglishwellletsjustsay created in the time Voldemort
ruled)
years after:
150 (some of the children still being created under Voldemort's ruling, but
others are already created on the extra childwish after war)
170 (the worrying stops and they can finally start thinking about their
childwish)
160
150 (birth rates are stabilizing again)
150

oh and I used just some example numbers and numbers of years

Joris

----- Original Message -----
From: "ffimiles" <ffionmiles at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: 1000 hogwarts students, but so little in
harry's year, my opinion


> 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]
> Ffi