Re-reading

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 76451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "manawydan" <manawydan at n...> 
wrote:
> 3. Big Hogwarts? Big Hufflepuff?

Ffred: 
> Chapter 7. The sorting process. Of the students whose house is 
given here, 3
> are listed for Hufflepuff (Abbott, Bones, Finch-Fletchley), 3 for 
Ravenclaw
> (Boot, Brocklehurst, Turpin), 3 for Slytherin (Bulstrode, Malfoy, 
Zabini),
> and 6 for Gryffindor (Brown, Finnegan, Granger, Longbottom, Potter,
> Weasley).
> 
> It's not conclusive, but it sounds as if JKR is trying to emphasise 
that the
> houses are roughly equal (though the Gryffs are highlighted because 
that's
> where Our Heroes end up, of course). 

Geoff:
But not everybody is named. Surely Crabbe and Goyle are in the same 
year as Malfoy but are not named at that point in the book.