Hogwarts Real School Activity(was: N. of Students at Hogwarts)

[nineve_laguna]

No: HPFGUIDX 75576

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nineve_laguna" 
<nineve_laguna at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
> wrote:
> > James" wrote: 
> > > We din't know numbers for all the houses.  Logically there 
would 
> be> > more people in some houses than others 
> > > I think we need to refer back to Harry again.  We see the WW 
> through ... and this must be true with the students.  The boys in 
his 
> dormitory feature heavily, others barely mentioned.
> > Del
> ******************
> Do we remember every single teacher/student of our school?
> As far as I can remember, my school had about 500 students, but I 
can 
> only recall about 40 of them. That goes for the teachers of 
subjects 
> I didn't take too. However, I did have teachers who taught diferent 
> subjects. And we had diferent teachers for kindergarden, 1st to 4th 
> years, 5th to 8th and some new ones for the NEWTs.
> That goes for students. In my fourth year we were about 25 in 
class, 
> by the 5th year we had to be divided in 4 classes, because of the 
new 
> students transfered from other schools. It never says that all 1st 
> years at Hogwarts attend the same class. They could have 1A and 1B, 
> for example. And if Harry never saw them, apart from the commom 
room, 
> how would he know? He is pretty ignorant of the WW.
> It seems impossible that there is only 10 (5girls/5 boys) people in 
> the class. It could be more like 20. They would have the nerds and 
> the geeks that people always ignore and pretend don't exist. After 
> all, Harry is the most popular guy in school, he would not be able 
to 
> pay attention to everybody.
> Now, in my calculations, if there are more or less 20 students per 
> year, 7 years= 140.
> As we all know, there are fewer very clever (Ravenclaw), brave 
> (Grif), Slimy (Slyth) than there are goody goodies. So Huffelpuf 
> would get a lot more students.
> Remenber that in GoF the visitors were looking for space at the 
> tables to sit down, and they chose Slyth and Ravenc, we thought 
that 
> they chose for similar character, but maybe it was more empty? 
After 
> all, Fleur wasn't that clever.
> So, we have perhaps, 140 from Grif, 140 Slyth, 140, Rav, maybe 
> 200/250 Huf= 620/670. Plus people repeating years, like Flint= 
> 700/750. Plus exchange students doing NEWTs=25xhouse=100 (if 
Hogwarts 
> can offer NEWTs, minor schools could finish at OWLs).
> We could have easily 850 students. Ok, so there are drop-outs too, 
> like Fred and George/Hagrid. But there are certainly new students 
> coming to live in England from other countries too, continuing 
their 
> studies at Hogwarts, 100?= 950 students.
> I can see JKR's point, as if you really consider school activity, 
> there is more to it than a child's memory (Harry's).
> Sorry to have bored everyone stiff, only trying to discover this 
big 
> mistery.
> Nineve