Number of Students at Hogwarts

[Susan Smith]

No: HPFGUIDX 68969

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "luna_loco" <peckham at c...> 
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"
> 

<Atropos G.>
In various interviews/public appearances, JKR has stated several 
times that there are about 1000 students, faculty, administration, 
staff at Hogwarts

A.G.
> The biggest problem with this arguement is that it assumes that
> Harry's year is a typical year.
> 
> Harry was born at a time of great unrest in the wizarding 
community. 
> Voldemort was at the peak of his power, and people on both sides of
> the conflict were disappearing or dying at a higher than normal 
rate.
>  In such times of uncertainty as this, it is quite plausible that 
the
> birth rate among wizarding community took a short-term decline.  An
> increase in the number of magical babies in the year following
> Voldomort's disapperance would then seem likely, and would suggest a
> larger number students.
> 
> Allen