new thought on students at hogawrts

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 80740

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> 
wrote:
> 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.

There is also a passage in OoP where Harry thinks to himself that
*30* students were listening attentively (I think it was in
the DADA or charms class - one of the required single-house
classes anyway) during one of the exchanges about Voldemort.
This furthers the supposition of some 200-odd per house: 30*7 = 210.
Sorry I don't remember where it was but I am sure I saw that.
Why we never hear of the others, I don't know.

Salit