[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts numbers

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 51846

Trond:

>On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:15:31PM -0000, Tom Wall <thomasmwall at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>> -----
>> Q: How many students attend Hogwarts, and how many
>>    students per year per house?
>> A: There are about a thousand students at Hogwarts.
>> -----
>> So, about 35 students per year per house.

>Well, that's what she said in an interview, she's also shown her
>notebook with what she claims is "the students in Harry's year". It's an
>alphabetical list of 41 names that begins with "Abbott, Hannah", and
>ends with "Zabini, Blaise". I'm inclined to believe that this list is
>complete.

"Prisoner", Chapter 15 says of the Quidditch final: "Three quarters of the
crowd were wearing scarlet ... two hundred people were wearing green..."

I don't pretend to be an expert at maths, but that sounds to me very much
like a total of 800. And that's in the book, so unless there is a cogent
argument why there should either be a significant number of absentees (if
you support the higher figure) which seems culturally unlikely or a
significant number of outside guests (and on other occasions where there are
guests, the books make clear mention of the fact) then that's canon.

It would support the argument that Harry's year is smaller than average,
especially when you consider that students leave if they fail their exams so
that the higher years would be smaller than the lower.

Cheers

Ffred

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