[HPforGrownups] HOW many classmates?

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 91379

Dorapye wrote:
>" 'It was murder,' said Harry.  He could feel himself shaking. He
>had hardly spoken to anyone about this, least of all THIRTY eagerly
>listening classmates. 'Voldemort killed him and you know it.'"
>
>Woah, there! THIRTY classmates? We have only 8 known Gryffindors in

I get the impression from the books that once JKR had said publicly that
there are around 1000 students at Hogwarts, all the references to numbers
(not only this one, which I hadn't noticed before, but also the Yule Ball,
the exam scene, etc) are all written with that in mind.

But I agree that we know the names of far fewer students than we first
thought

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