[HPforGrownups] Re: What's in the Box?

[Random832]

No: HPFGUIDX 177006

> Bart:
> First of all, while the canon is kind of self-contradictory on this, there 
> APPEAR to be about 10 students in each house in each class (about 40 per 
year,
> about 280 students in the school).

Whoa, there. This is what happens when everyone's so obsessed with the 
numbers - There are 10 students for each house in Harry's year *that JKR 
has defined* - backgrounds, personalities, etc (even that haven't 
appeared on her page, it's all presumably in her notes given the list 
we've seen) - it's a sketch of the student body, a way for her to model 
the reactions of the larger group. It's a microcosm.

Would we honestly expect her to come up with so much as names for all of 
a larger student body? This assumption that because she's only got 40 
characters on the class list, that there's only 40 students in harry's 
year, is unfair - it's as if saying "You didn't make a longer list, so 
you're not _allowed_ to say that there's thousands of students"