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There were more than that just at the Quidditch World Cup championship, and I'm sure that only a small fraction of the British wizards attended.
She's self-admittedly not a good source. How many people do you figure were at the World Cup? How many of them do you think were international?
There are 1,100 people on the two floors of the building I work in. Three times that is one hell of a tiny community.
I honestly have no idea. Most of my knowledge on older Jewish customs comes from Fiddler on the Roof.
Yeah, mine too.
And sort of on topic, my wife sent me a link to the Myers-Briggs test here: [link] which eventually led me to this site: [link] which suggests a relationship between personality types and the Houses of Hogwarts. And apparently, I'm a Ravenclaw.
Plus, 40 kids per year times 7 years = 280 kids not 600.
Well, if there were 40 in Harry's year, and about the same in the rest of the years, that makes 280 kids. Which makes, let's assume, 560 parents. Muggle-borns are very rare so lets say that out of the 560 parents, only 50 are Muggle couples. But pure blood wizards are getting rare, so let's say that out of the remaining 510 parents, 300 of them are Wizards/Witches.
THAT'S TEENY TINY!
And I have waaaaaaaaaay too much time on my hands.
My impression was she fleshed out 40 kids from Harry's year, not that there are only 40 kids in each year. That would make 10 kids per house per year, and that number just seems small to me.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Plus, 40 kids per year times 7 years = 280 kids not 600.
She cops to that error in the quote. Also it wouldn't multiply (probably) by 7 -- there'll be some attrition after fifth form, and not really many other places to get students.
So I'm thinking her 3000 population is from the 600 school roster.
That would make 10 kids per house per year, and that number just seems small to me.
But it can't be that much bigger than that -- it seems like a lot of their classes are all the kids in a certain year from two houses together, and these seem to be close to regular classroom sizes (I'd say no more than 40 or so kids, total, so 20 per house per year) rather than lecture halls.
So, then, it's possible that there are fewer than 3000?
I always kinda wondered if there were other schools in each country. So that, would it also be possible in wizarding world terms to have more than one school?
Funny, but it never occurred to me to think how many kids?
And for a boarding school, 40 per year? Does that seem large or small?
I wonder if Beauxbaton and Durmstrang are set up the same? Class-wise, I mean.