[HPforGrownups] Re: Number of Students at Hogwarts

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 69264



Susan Smith wrote:
> <Atropos G.>  If we assume there are about 30 students per year in
> each house, then perhaps the following works.  Snape has to teach
> Gryffindor and Slytherin Potions (60 fifth year students say), but he
> teaches the first 30 on Mon, and the second 30 on Tues.  If he
> teaches 7 periods a day and has a lunch period and a planning period
> he could cover all 7 levels of two houses in 2 days.  Then on Wed and
> Thur he could do the other 2 houses and Friday could be for
> tutorials, remedial potions, etc.  We also know he is not adverse to
> teaching at night.  This may not be quite right, but could work with
> some tweaking-we would need a jr jhig teacher to tweak it.
> 
> A.G.
> 


I don't believe that Hoggwart's has a 'set number' of students they 
accept and the number of students depends on the number of children born 
  to Wizards in the UK during each year.  The '1000 students' may be the 
capacity in which Hoggwart's is able to handle at one time, meaning they 
have ROOM for that many.  There's nothing to stop them from getting more 
teachers to handle the load if they are running at capacity.

Harry's year is not a good one to go by, being as Voldemort was at the 
height of his power when he was conceived and its possible that people 
were not having many kids during that time due to the feeling it was not 
a good world at the time to bring children into.  It might have been the 
  lowest number of new students in years for all we know.

Jazmyn