Peter and the Marauders (WAS Re: What's in the Box?)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 177108

 
> 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). Given this, it is not 
unreasonable that the 4 boys were the only male students from their 
year in Gryffindor. 

zgirnius:
Since some posters have objected to the 40-a-year suggestion...I would 
point out it is not necessary to your theory (which I also believe 
<g>). Harry, Ron, Seamus, Dean, and Neville were assigned their room, 
they did not choose it. If there were other Gryff boys we simply never 
met, they were assigned to another room or rooms. The rooms seem to 
typically have 5 occupants, but the odds that the number of boys in a 
given year is always evenly divisble by 5 is slim...so there is no 
reason that the four Marauders could not have been the four boys 
assigned to one room at the start of their first year. And the logic 
for including Peter would remain the same.