Number of Students at Hogwarts

[angelberri56]

No: HPFGUIDX 76793

I'm just shooting off theories and questions left and right, and I 
apologize, but I keep thinking of more. I hope no one finds my 
posts annoying!.....

Anyway... I might be mistaken, but I heard tell of an interview with 
JKR in which she said that Hogwarts had about 2,000 or so 
students. (Was that the right number... I really can't remember, 
I'm sorry) Well, whatever she said, it was much more than could 
have been possible at Hogwarts. We are actually able to 
calculate the exact number of students at Hogwarts, and it's 
nowhere near the thousands. 

If there are 5 girls and 5 boys (10 alltogether) in a year in each 
house, and there are 7 years, then that make 70 students per 
house. Now, there are 4 houses, with 70 each, so 4 x 70 is 280. 
There are 280 students at Hogwarts. 

I don't know how JKR could have said the number of students 
that she said (whatever it was), because it seems that in the 
books she knew how many students there were. 

In PS/SS, during Harry's first flying lesson, the book said that 
there were twenty brooms lying on the ground. This makes 
perfect sense... seeing as they had lessons with the Slytherins, 
that would be ten Gryffindors and ten Slytherins. Twenty.

This was just something that bothered me. And I apologize if 
there was no such interview and that I made out JKR to not know 
what she was talking about!!!!!

One last thing I was wondering, was who the last 2 Gryffindor 
girls who are in HRH's class. We have Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean, 
and Seamus for the boys, and Hermione, Parvati, and Lavender 
for the girls, but who are the other two Gryffindors girls? We have 
never met them! 

"angelberri56"