OoP: Questions, Ideas and my own Prophecy

[Diana]

No: HPFGUIDX 61978

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...> 
wrote:
> Second: There were 30 (31 counting Harry?) students in his first 
> Defense Against the Dark Arts Class.  How can that be? From what I 
> could tell, there were only Gryfindors, or at least only 
Gryfindors asked questions.  And I don't remember mentions of other 
houses sharing DADA class with them in previous books.  So just how 
many Gryfindors are there in Harry's year?  And if it wasn't just 
> Gryfindors in the class, was it also Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw? 
> Because you'd think it would mention if Draco were there.
 
Answer:  There were others than just Gryffindors there.  Here's the 
complete list:  Gryffindors were Dean Thomas, Neville Longbottom, 
Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Padma Patil, Katie Bell, Alicia 
Spinnet, Angelina Johnson, Colin Creevey, Dennis Creevey, Ginny 
Weasley, Fred Weasley, George Weasley, Lee Jordan, Seamus Finnegan 
who joined later, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter of 
course.  That makes 18 Gryffindors.  Ravenclaws were Cho Chang, 
Marietta Edgecombe, Anthony Goldstein, Michael Corner and Terry 
Boot. That is 5 Ravenclaws.  Hufflepuffs were Ernie Macmillan, 
Justin Finch-Fletchley, Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones and Zacharias 
Smith.  That is 5 Hufflepuffs. 
   There is a total of 28 members, counting the teacher, Harry, of 
Dumbledore's army.  From the number of Gryffindors present, we know 
that the majority of students in Harry's year joined up.  Perhaps 
even all of them.  I'll have to go back through the books to check, 
though.  No Slytherins of course.  

Diana L.