[HPforGrownups] OOP: Hogwarts student size new data

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 63357

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"innovan" wrote:

> More evidence for the low estimate of Hogwarts student population.

> OotP p196 states "100 or so horseless stagecoaches" carry the students 
> to school. The stagecoaches carry 4 students each, but some of the 
> stagecoaches are also used to carry luggage, not students.

Of course, it could have been up to 149 stagecoaches and estimated down to 100 or so. :) Which would hold almost 600, or an average of 100 per year and another 100 1st years would make 700.  That's if you put four students in each carriage.  But Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Luna all rode in the same carriage, so that's five.  If there were five in each carriage, and there were as many as 149 carriages, that would be another 45 right there.  Plus first years to even it out, round it up to an even 750.  Getting closer to a thousand anyway.

Now, as far as student numbers go, I'm probably the only moron who overlooked this before, but in PoA at the Quidditch Final numbers are approximated for us.  First, this is the assumption those are students in the crowd, as it has never been implied (other than TMTMNBN2) that anyone other than the teachers and students attend Quidditch games.  Anyway, Harry notices when he walks out on the field that 3/4 of the crowd was wearing Gryffindor colors.  Then it says that behind the Slytherin goal posts, 200 people were wearing green.  So according to that 200=1/4 therefore 3/4=750 for a total of 1000.  Approximately.

Richelle


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