Hogwarts Student Population

[Shana Ziolko]

No: HPFGUIDX 45362

Hallo, um, sorry if this sounds really off.

After reading Gulplum's message, I thought of
something:

GulPlum wrote: 
>>>>>I'm not sure if that was clear, but to put it
another way, assuming there 
are, say, 20 second-year pupils in each of Gryffindor
and Hyfflepuff, 
rather than have the 20 Herbology pupils made up of
one set of 10 
Gryffindors and 10 Hufflepuffs in one lesson and
another 10 Gs and 10 Hs in 
another, it would have been easier to simply have all
20 Gryffindors in one 
class, and the 20 Hufflepuffs in another.
The one piece of canon we have which is unequivocal
about the number of 
boys in Harry's year is that each year, his dorm in
the tower is "the [X] 
years' boys' dorm" implying that the five boys in
Harry's dorm are all the 
Gryffindors for each year. Now, whether or not we're
allowed to extrapolate 
figures from this is debatable, but any variations
would be unlikely to be 
particularly huge. After all, after four years at
Hogwarts, nobody, least 
of all the boys in Harry's dorm, have commented that
there are very few of 
them compared to the other Houses/years.
For instance, when I was at school, the year above
mine had at least 50% 
more pupils than the average for the others, and this
was an incessant 
source of comment.<<<<<<

I also came from a school where my class was the
largest, to the point that they had to divide us. 
So perhaps no one is mentioning size that much.

Since Harry and the other older students were born
during the major Vold crisis, perhaps less children
were born during that time, being that dark, trust no
one type feeling in the wizard world. But once Harry
was born and defeated Vold the first time around,
perhaps there was a 'baby boom' effect, much like the
one in the U.S. after WWII.

Or maybe the class sizes at hogwarts are due to
schedule. Like in PoA, Hermione has a different
schedule then Harry and Ron, even though she does have
the time turner, so maybe the first and second year
students also have varied schedules that allow them to
have class with other houses.

Or maybe I'm just really off the ticket.

Anywho.

-SJZ


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