Number of Students at Hogwarts

[sibel_saya]

No: HPFGUIDX 69028

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ephrem B <sdpinoy2003 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> 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"

> 
> I don't remember reading it, but I know that JKR once said in an 
interview there's about a thousand students at Hogwarts.  Plus it is 
possible that there is just 5 beds in Harry's room, but more rooms 
containing 5th years.
> 
> 

In PA in the chapter 'The Quidditch Final' it says "Behind the 
Slytherin goalposts, however, twon hundred people were wearing green."
So there is some evidence in the books that there is 200 students in 
each house besides what JKR has stated in interviews.
Sibel