Ever inquire how there could only be about 18 Gryffindors in Harry ’s Hogwarts class and that J.K. Rowling has enjoin there were1,000 studentsat the school ? Well , a fan theory has an response … a depressing , cheerless answer .
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Buzzfeeddid the mathematics and , accept that all the houses have rough equal numbers of students , there would involve to be an norm of 35 students per house per twelvemonth for there to be 1,000 students total . ( 1000/7 ( the number of yr at the school ) = 143 143/4 ( the phone number of houses ) ≈ 35 ) .
However , the movies come along to show only 18 Thomas Kyd in Harry ’s Gryffindor yr . And it does n’t look like there ’s an explosion in the other theater to make up for that .
Since Harry was just a little over one class sometime when Voldemort was shoot down the first time , we can take on that his year , the year right below him , and the years above him would all be relatively minor , as it was in effect wartime in the wizarding macrocosm . Not a good clock time to have baby ! But any age after that might be unco turgid , due to a post - war baby boom like we saw after World War II . Which could smooth the numbers out and mean that , by book three or four , Hogwarts was back up to the usual 1,000 students .
This theory can be further expanded to include the epilogue to the serial publication , which select blank space 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts . In the epilogue we see Teddy Lupin — like Harry , born during the end of a war with Voldemort , and likely also part of a tiny social class . James , Harry ’s oldest Word is already at the school by then , and his class might very well be a gargantuan manna from heaven course of study .
Basically , we ’ll know the wizarding earth has in conclusion hark back to normal when the family sizes at Hogwarts are neither too big nor too modest .
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