new thought on students at hogawrts

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 80697

fawkes(pat) wrote:
> Okay so i was reading the POA yesterday(for the thousandth time) and 
> i came across a passage about the Griffindor vs. Slytherin final 
> match. They were tlaking about how all the students and teachers 
> were in the crowd and how 3/4 were all wearing red. but then down at 
> the Slytherin post, there were said to be 100 students(and snape). 
> this is just to further prove the theory about 5girl/5boy per grade. 
> Just thought id let you all know
> fawkes(pat)

Here, have a nice red flag for major canon violation. This passage you 
mention is one of the big arguments towards many-student Hogwarts. To 
quote:

"Three-quarters of the crowd were wearing scarlet rosettesm waving 
scarlet flags with the Gryffundor lion upon them or brandishing banners 
with slogans such as 'GO GRYFFINDOR!' and 'LIONS FOR THE CUP!' Behind 
the Slytherin Goalposts, however, *two hundred* people were wearing 
green; the silver serpent of Slytherin glittered on their flags [...]" 
(emphasis mine) (ch. 15, GoF, Br. Ed.).

There are 200 people in green, and they are a quarter of the total 
(assuming there are no neutrals, which there could be, pushing their 
percentage down to, for example, one fifth - see later). That makes the 
total number, without neutrals, at 800 students. Many more than the 
10*4*7 = 280 that you propose.

What is more, I find it hard to believe that *all* of the Hufflepuff 
and Ravenclaw were cheering Gryffindor (or that everyone went to the 
match). The neutrals could easily be argued to push the total number 
up. For example, if there are 1/20 neutrals, the segment of Slytherin 
would be just 4/20 of the total, or 1/5, which would make the 1000 
students JKR once said.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf