How many students at Hogwarts?

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 46411

"hadeurige" wrote:

<< According to you, how many students are there in the school?
<snip> if you consider Gryffindor's house: 8 pupils (3 girls and 5 
boys joined Gryffindor in Harry's year. Let's make it an average of 
10 students per house per year. There are four houses and 7 years at 
Hogwarts...which makes a total of around 300 pupils in the whole 
school, no more! >>

... and to add to the confusion, when interviewed about this, JKR 
declared there were "about a thousand" students at Hogwarts.  

I'm popping up in semi-Mod role to remind everyone that there is a 
VFAQ in the files section, indicating some of the questions, 
including this one, that have come up very frequently on list:  
http://www.hpfgu.org.uk/vfaq

There's an entry on "number of students at Hogwarts" that points at 
some useful sources (a Hogwarts FAQ, for example) if anyone's 
interested.  Alternatively, a search of the archives here would pull 
up quite a few threads from the past.

I doubt we'll ever pin this one down!

Neil
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