Families in HP (WAS: An acronym, why can't JKR count, etc.)

[Ersatz Harry]

No: HPFGUIDX 57843

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mongo62aa" <mongo62aa at y...> wrote:

> So, two out of five students, or 40 percent, are known to have at 
> least one sibling at Hogwarts,.  That sounds about right, compared to 
> my high school.

Since you say "high school", I assume you mean a 4-year high school in
the US.  But Hogwarts is a 7-year school, which means that the chances
of having a sibling in school at the same time is quite a bit greater.
 Of course, when we're looking at a small number of students, it is
entirely possible that all or none of them have siblings; I was
originally commenting on the lack of siblings in general in the books.

Ersatz Harry, who is tempted to go through his high school yearbook
and count the fraction of his classmates who had siblings in school at
the same time