Number of Students at Hogwarts

[MrEddo]

No: HPFGUIDX 68907

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rebecca D." <antigone_q at y...> 
wrote:
> --- 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.

Yes, I think it is about right, because JK mentioned Seamus, Neville, 
and Dean as THE other Gryffindor 5th year boys, as if there are no 
others, although it is always possible those numbers vary at the whim 
of the sorting hat and the year to year population. But it's a good 
estimate.