How many students WAS: Re: Prefects

[Cassy Ferris]

No: HPFGUIDX 157014

--- Steve <bboyminn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think 400 is a more reasonable
> estimate
>  of Hogwarts size. (I've done the calculation but
> won't 
> bore you with them again.)

Cassy:

I think Rowling stated somewhere that there's around a
1000 student in Hogwarts, but she herself admits that
her calculations are not always correct. Then again,
she has to cut down the number of secondary characters
and we can't estimate number of nameless extras from
the books only, seeing as they are not mentioned.
Perhaps in Harry's year, which we get to know best,
there's simply less then average number of students.
After all those children were born in the middle of
first Voldemort war, there should have been quite a
low birth rate.

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