The number of students at Hogwarts, was Re: Questions about Prefects & Head Boy/Girl

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 100203

If, as I believe, there are about 270 students at Hogwarts, and
there are 8 prefects in 5th, 6th, and 7th year, there are 22
prefects total, plus head boy and head girl, meaning less than one
tenth of students make prefect.

~Luckie



I think there are about 800 students at Hogwarts. I have just finished
rereading a scene in PoA which describes that Gryffindor vs Slytherin
Quidditch match. It described 3/4s of the school supporting Gryffindor and
200 Slytherins wearing green cloaks. If we assume that each house as roughly
the same amount, then there'd be around 800 students. Even if the houses
don't, surely it can't be 200 Slytherins vs 70 others? Let me type up the
exact words from the Canadian edition, chapters called "The Quidditch
Final":

"Three-quarters of the crowd were wearing scarlet rosettes, waving scarlet
flags...<snip>... Behind the Slytherin goalposts, however, two hundred
people were wearing green;"

Alina.