HOW many classmates?/ Are there an equal number of students in each house?

[melody leong]

No: HPFGUIDX 91400

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? 

Ffred:
> 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. <<<


For Harry's year, there should be 5 boys and 5 girls in his house... right? Logically, wouldn't that mean that there are 40 in each year, and around 280 students in the school...?
 
Melz