[HPforGrownups] Re: re:Battle/Cloak/Apparate/Dobby/TMR/Virus/Shun/Boggart/Animagi/Squib//Bill/Sn

[Kemper]

No: HPFGUIDX 168462

> > Geoff:
> > I have a suspicion that you may be viewing this from a US point of
> > view. JKR has based Hogwarts on a British style public school. Most
> > schools of this type would probably have a school roll in the 500-
> > 800 range; just maybe up to 1000. You wouldn't get ANY UK
> > school with an enrolment anywhere near 3000.

> someone replied:
> How many are in castles this size?
>
> I can buy that the founders never imagined there'd be so many. But if
> they're not hurting for space why would they build another one or
> whatever when there's just been the one for a millennium?
>
> I don't see any reason to think there aren't 1000 students at hogwarts.

Kemper now:
I don't think the Hogwarts of today does not look like the Hogwarts of
yestermillenium.  I'm no architectural historian, but castles of
Howgarts immensity did not exist circa 997 AD.

As Hogwarts is a magical place, I imagine the founders built/started
with what's now the Great Hall with lessons being taught on opposite
sides of the Hall.  There wouldn't have been many students in the
beginning.  Maybe 5 or 10 student each House.  Each House could have
been housed in a Lesser Hall.

As the need for space grew, additions were added to the Hall.

"Well what about the Chamber of Secrets?" someone might ask.

The entrance could have been in the girls' outhouse or perhaps the
ladies had a Chamber[ofSecrets]pot Room where a water basin had a
snake carved into it.

Or that's how I imagine it, anyway.

Kemper