How many kids in Harry's year? ( JKR's quote) WAS:Re: Harry's study habits.

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Alla wrote:
> So, at the very least we have the reason to doubt whether it is 40 or 
> 600, IMO.
> 


Potioncat:
Look at that snipping! Oh the wonder of me! I should get an award!

Yes, she says she fleshed out 40 students for Harry's year, and it 
appears she worked out a handful more for other years. It seems she has 
a vague idea of a busy bustling school of young wizards. She didn't 
work out the actual numbers, determine how many teachers she needed, 
how many dormitories, whether the common rooms were big enough, how the 
schedule would work and if all those kids could be served meals in the 
Great Hall at one time. 

For all the warm awards we fans might wish for her, none of us will 
ever offer her a LOON badge. The problem is, many of us are looking for 
clues and quite a few of us are LOONy. We have to be careful how we use 
numbers because JKR is not careful with them. She says so herself.