How Many Students Are There At Hogwarts?
by Steve Vander Ark There are actually about three hundred, it would seem, although there is plenty of debate on the subject. Here’s the evidence from the books themselves: • There are more or less ten students (depending on the vagarities of the Sorting) in each House per year, five boys and five girls. • There were twenty broomsticks lying on the ground awaiting the first year Gryffindors and Slytherins for their first flying lesson, which bears that number out (PS9). • A double class of Potions — Gryffindor and Slytherin — had twenty cauldrons set up. • For a double class of Herbology — Gryffindor and Hufflepuff — Professor Sprout had twenty pairs of earmuffs ready (CS6). • Harry’s class in Gryffindor has the following students in it: • Brown, Lavender • Finnigan, Seamus • Granger, Hermione • Longbottom, Neville • Patil, Parvati • Potter, Harry • Thomas, Dean • Weasley, Ron • possibly two unidentified girls • If there are more Gryffindors of that year, isn’t it strange that we h
