Number of Students at Hogwarts

[Rebecca D.]

No: HPFGUIDX 68838

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lynnfaragher78" 
<jamielynncarlson at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> There are 5 identical beds in Harrys room (Harry, Ron, Neville, 
> Seamus, and Dean)
> 
> 20 broomsticks for the Slytherins and Gryffindors class....
> 
> I then assume that there are 5 boys and 5 girls in each house and 
in 
> each year....
> 
> 40 new students per year, 70 students per house, and 280 students 
> total.......
> 
> Does that sound about right???
> 
> 
> "lynnfaragher78"

We don't know if there were only five beds, or if there more beds and 
just five students in Harry's room. Maybe there are different numbers 
of students depending on how many Wizard children were born in a 
particular year - that seems possible to me. Also, in OoP Harry tells 
one of the students that he can switch dorm rooms, so possibly there 
are other boys in Gryffindor that are the same age.  We just don't 
know.  280 students MIGHT be close, but it's not definitive.

Antigone Q.