CHAP DISC: HBP 22, After the Burial

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I just have one comment to your answers to these questions. You said:


> Potioncat:
> Throughout the books there are scenes that indicate a great number---
> it's caused all sorts of discussions about how many students
> there "really" are. I think JKR sees the WW as fairly large.


I'm not quite sure if I agree about the wizarding world being very
large. According to the book there are only 5 beds in Harry's
Gryffindor bedroom, so that would mean (on average) 10 students per
house per year. That would equal to about 280 students. But if you
break it down into age range that would be about 40 students per
grade. Now we know that there are at least 3 wizarding schools out
there, so that does triple all the numbers (about 120 students per
grade) but I'm not too sure I would call that a large population. It
seems quite small if you compare it to the population of the world in
reality. Just thought I would point that out. You might be quite right
tho, there may be many more wizarding schools that just aren't
mentioned in the book. But this is just how I interpreted the
population of wizards.

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