Number of Students at Hogwarts (yet again!)

[nineve_laguna]

No: HPFGUIDX 72927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Doriane" <delwynmarch at y...> 
wrote:
> James" wrote: 
> > We din't know numbers for all the houses.  Logically there would 
be> > more people in some houses than others 
> > I think we need to refer back to Harry again.  We see the WW 
through ... and this must be true with the students.  The boys in his 
dormitory feature heavily, others barely mentioned.
> Del
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Do we remember every single teacher/student of our school?
As far as I can remember, my school had about 500 students, but I can 
only recall about 40 of them. That goes for the teachers of subjects 
I didn't take too. However, I did have teachers who taught diferent 
subjects. And we had diferent teachers for kindergarden, 1st to 4th 
years, 5th to 8th and some new ones for the NEWTs.
That goes for students. In my fourth year we were about 25 in class, 
by the 5th year we had to be divided in 4 classes, because of the new 
students transfered from other schools. It never says that all 1st 
years at Hogwarts attend the same class. They could have 1A and 1B, 
for example. And if Harry never saw them, apart from the commom room, 
how would he know? He is pretty ignorant of the WW.
It seems impossible that there is only 10 (5girls/5 boys) people in 
the class. It could be more like 20. They would have the nerds and 
the geeks that people always ignore and pretend don't exist. After 
all, Harry is the most popular guy in school, he would not be able to 
pay attention to everybody.
Now, in my calculations, if there are more or less 20 students per 
year, 7 years= 140.
As we all know, there are fewer very clever (Ravenclaw), brave 
(Grif), Slimy (Slyth) than there are goody goodies. So Huffelpuf 
would get a lot more students.
Remenber that in GoF the visitors were looking for space at the 
tables to sit down, and they chose Slyth and Ravenc, we thought that 
they chose for similar character, but maybe it was more empty? After 
all, Fleur wasn't that clever.
So, we have perhaps, 140 from Grif, 140 Slyth, 140, Rav, maybe 
200/250 Huf= 620/670. Plus people repeating years, like Flint= 
700/750. Plus exchange students doing NEWTs=25xhouse=100 (if Hogwarts 
can offer NEWTs, minor schools could finish at OWLs).
We could have easily 850 students. Ok, so there are drop-outs too, 
like Fred and George/Hagrid. But there are certainly new students 
coming to live in England from other countries too, continuing their 
studies at Hogwarts, 100?= 950 students.
I can see JKR's point, as if you really consider school activity, 
there is more to it than a child's memory (Harry's).
Sorry to have bored everyone stiff, only trying to discover this big 
mistery.
Nineve