How many hogwarts students are in each year

Harry's year is probably so unusually small because they are children conceived at the height of Voldemort's power. Witches and wizards presumably have better contraception than Muggles, so they would have the power to choose not to bear a child into a world at war, and probably many would so choose.

It's likely that the year below Harry's Ginny and Luna's year is also small. The year below that would be small to normal-sized but heavily weighted towards students born towards the end of the academic year, since there would be a low number of conceptions before Voldemort's fall and sharp rise after it as people celebrated, resulting in a rash of births in late July and August The year after that would probably be unusually large, thus balancing out the small year just below Harry.

So although the distribution between years would be uneven, by the time Harry reaches fourth year it is possible to work out the numbers as if there was one small year Harry's and the rest were fairly average, even though it would really go: 1 st year - very large 2 nd year - small to average, weighted towards July and August births 3 rd year - very small 4 th year - very small Harry's year 5 th year - small to average 6 th year - average 7 th year - average During Harry's time at Hogwarts there are probably only about six hundred and forty students, plus about fourteen members of staff Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape, Sprout, Flitwick, Vector, Sinistra, Burbage, Trelawney, Hooch, Hagrid, Pince, Filch and the current DADA teacher , so the crowd of around eight hundred who attended the Quidditch match in PoA included over a hundred and thirty extra spectators - and they didn't include the castle's hundred house elves, or Hermione wouldn't have been so surprized to learn about them in GoF.

So clearly, former students or Hogsmeade residents or both come to the major matches. Given the popularity of Quidditch, and the apparently paucity of wizarding entertainment, it would certainly not be surprising if the villagers took any opportunity they could get to watch an exciting match which is taking place on their doorstep.

What can we deduce about the wizarding population as a whole? There is also another way of looking at the numbers, and that's by considering the wizarding population at large. JK Rowling said in an interview somewhere that there were only about three thousand wizards in Britain, but if we believe that it creates all manner of problems. The Unites States has not produced as many world-class Quidditch teams as other nations because the game has had to compete with the American broom game Quodpot.

The world population is about 66 American billions thousand millions. I know it's a popular sport, but that's ridiculous: especially since a sizeable proportion 4. Set against the dull, poster-muffled shop fronts around them, Fred and George's windows hit the eye like a firework display. The Weasley twins' shop, for example, is n o 93 Diagon Alley and there's no indication it's even at the end of the street: Harry's party find it by counting street-numbers, not by just going to the far end of the alley.

Indeed, the fact that they have to read the numbers to check that they are getting close strongly suggests that n o 93 isn't close to the end of the street. So we have at least a hundred shops in Diagon Alley, probably more, and probably as many again in Knockturn Alley, and many of those shops are large ones with multiple staff.

The Ministry is a large, multi-storey building which is bustling with employees Harry sees hundreds coming in to work and it's very unlikely that he sees the entire staff all in one go and also has staff posted elsewhere such as the Aurors based in Hogsmeade. It can afford to assign five hundred employees for a whole year to work on the setup for the World Cup human employees, not house-elves, because they were working on Muggle-Repelling Charms , and still have enough staff to keep its other functions going - although some of the five hundred who work on the World Cup may be short-term hires.

St Mungo's is also a fair-sized, multi-storey hospital with plenty of staff and at least forty-nine wards. It's obvious that Hogsmeade also is not tiny, for a village - we're not talking twenty houses here.

It takes Harry minutes to get from the turning up to Madam Puddifoot's to the Three Broomsticks, even at a run. For reasons stated above, Hogsmeade probably has a population of around two thousand. There are also sizeable magical communities in Tinworth, Upper Flagley, Ottery St Catchpole and Godric's Hollow and again, some of their residents will not have been counted elsewhere as workers at the wizarding institutions in London.

Harry looked into the stands. Colin was sitting in one of the highest seats [CoS ch. We know this because we know from Quidditch Through the Ages that the pitch was established as being five hundred feet long and a hundred and eighty feet wide in the fourteenth century, and although there have been subsequent changes to the goals etc. That means the pitch has a perimeter over 1,ft long - more if there is an offside strip between the pitch and the benches, which there probably is. We know that there are at least three tiers, because the mention of a "highest" tier implies the existence of at least a lowest and a middle tier.

If the seating goes all the way around the pitch - which it seems to do, judging from a sketch which JK Rowling drew - that's over 3,ft of benches. Even if you take a bit off for the entrances and the changing rooms, that's still a lot of seats.

The seating is wooden we know because feet echo on it , so it's unlikely to be more than a hundred and fifty years old, and there's been no indication that the population of wizarding Britain, or of the school, has dropped enormously in that time.

If there was a need for anything like a thousand seats when it was built, there still is. The Ministry of Magic: probably about a thousand staff, since they were able to spare five hundred workers for a year and still function and there are ten floors at the Ministry building in London, eight of them with large numbers of rooms and presumably staff to fill them.

St Mungo's: probably two or three hundred inpatients in St Mungo's at any one time given that there are at least forty-nine wards and around two hundred staff, since they need medical staff on the wards, medical staff to see to outpatients, potion-makers, receptionists, medical researchers, administrators and people to perform the "hotel" functions of preparing food, washing sheets and cleaning wards although some of these people may be house-elves.

Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley: at least another five hundred or so, even if the buildings are all just businesses and no residential accommodation.

We start off with 50 applicants, as Harry divided them into groups of ten and there were at least five groups: Harry decided to start with a basic test, asking all applicants for the team to divide into groups of ten and fly once around the pitch. The fifth group were Hufflepuffs. Then there were a couple of Ravenclaws: There was a pause, then a couple of little Ravenclaws went sprinting off the pitch, snorting with laughter.

This presumably was not a small number, because it took two hours before they even got up to the Keeper tryouts: After two hours, many complaints, and several tantrums The many complaints and several tantrums were presumably all from people who didn't make the team. At the very least, we know for a fact that there were six additional Keeper applicants besides Ron: None of the first five applicants saved more than two goals apiece.

Divination Class The first time Harry goes to Divination we get the following description of the classroom: At least twenty small, circular tables were crammed inside it, all surrounded by chintz armchairs and fat little poufs. And it wasn't even one person per table: Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat themselves around the same round table. Flying, Herbology, Potions, and Care of Magical Creatures Class On the other hand, in Harry's Herbology class with Hufflepuff in Chamber of Secrets Chapter 6 there appear to be only 20 students based on the 20 pairs of earmuffs : About twenty pairs of different-colored ear-muffs were lying on the bench.

Likewise, his flying class with Slytherin in Philosopher's Stone Chapter 9 also only has 20 students based on the 20 broomsticks : The Slytherins were already there, and so were twenty broomsticks lying in neat lines on the ground. Likewise, his Potions class with Slytherin in Chamber of Secrets Chapter 11 also only has 20 students based on the 20 cauldrons : Twenty cauldrons stood steaming between the wooden desks, on which stood brass scales and jars of ingredients.

In the first lesson we are told that there were a dozen hippogriffs: Trotting toward them were a dozen of the most bizarre creatures Harry had ever seen.

And we later find students per hippogriff: Neville ran repeatedly backward from his, which didn't seem to want to bend its knees. Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle had taken over Buckbeak. This can be demonstrated as follows: We know Slytherin was there, by the presence of Malfoy: "An answer copied almost word for word from the Standard Book of Spells, Grade Six ," said Snape dismissively over in the corner, Malfoy sniggered , "but correct in essentials.

We know Hufflepuff was there, by the presence of Ernie Macmillan: "Harry," Ernie said portentously, holding out his hand as Harry approached, "didn't get a chance to speak in Defense Against the Dark Arts this morning. We know Ravenclaw was there based on the following calculation: In one class, Snape collects their essays and we see that there are 25 of them: "Before we start, I want your Dementor essays," said Snape, waving his wand carelessly, so that twenty-five scrolls of parchment soared into the air and landed in a neat pile on his desk.

In the first class, we find out that at least half the class had been D. Knowing Fellow Students But if indeed there were only a couple hundred students you might expect Harry to at least have a passing familiarity with most, if not all, of them.

The girl smiled. Even Hermione apparently doesn't know a girl she's been sharing a common room with for more than five years: Hermione hurried over to Katie's wailing friend and put an arm around her. Ibid The hundreds of faces staring at them looked like pale lanterns in the flickering candlelight. Philosopher's Stone Chapter 10 Hundreds of seats were raised in stands around the field so that the spectators were high enough to see what was going on.

Chamber of Secrets Chapter 8 A rumble, as though of distant thunder, told them that the feast had just ended. Chamber of Secrets Chapter 16 They hid themselves inside it, listening to the rumbling of hundreds of people moving overhead, and the staffroom door banging open.

Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 5 Harry, Ron, and Hermione followed the rest of the school along the platform and out onto a rough mud track, where at least a hundred stagecoaches awaited the remaining students, each pulled, Harry could only assume, by an invisible horse, because when they climbed inside and shut the door, the coach set off all by itself, bumping and swaying in procession. Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 9 One casual wave of his wand and the long tables flew to the edges of the hall and stood themselves against the walls; another wave, and the floor was covered with hundreds of squashy purple sleeping bags.

Goblet of Fire Chapter 15 Hundreds upon hundreds of owls of every breed imaginable were nestled here on perches that rose right up to the top of the tower, nearly all of them asleep, though here and there a round amber eye glared at Harry.

Ibid Harry heard the buzzing of the hundreds of students on the other side of the wall, before Professor McGonagall closed the door.

Goblet of Fire Chapter 20 And in no time at all, hundreds upon hundreds of pairs of feet could be heard passing the tent, their owners talking excitedly, laughing, joking.

Ibid Harry waited, every fiber of him hoping, praying. Goblet of Fire Chapter 31 Five minutes later, the stands had begun to fill; the air was full of excited voices and the rumbling of feet as the hundreds of students filed into their seats.

Order of the Phoenix Chapter 12 With a whoosh and a clatter, hundreds of owls came soaring in through the upper windows. Ibid The bell rang for the end of the lesson. Order of the Phoenix Chapter 14 The sun was high in the sky now and when Harry entered the Owlery the glassless windows dazzled his eyes; thick silvery beams of sunlight crisscrossed the circular room in which hundreds of owls nestled on rafters, a little restless in the early morning light, some clearly just returned from hunting.

Half Blood Prince Chapter 8 With the usual deafening scraping noise, the benches were moved back and the hundreds of students began to file out of the Great Hall toward their dormitories.

Half Blood Prince Chapter Chapter 18 He could only suppose that he was missing Malfoy amongst the hundreds of tiny black dots upon the map. First of all, Harry had taught the Shield Charm before Seamus joined; this is clear from it being mentioned in Chapter Twenty-Five of Order of the Phoenix , two chapters prior to Seamus joining: He was improving so fast it was quite unnerving and when Harry taught them the Shield Charm, a means of deflecting minor jinxes so that they rebounded upon the attacker, only Hermione mastered the charm faster than Neville.

Alex Alex Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix , chapter "Snape's Worst Memory" So if there are over rolls of parchment, we can get the number of students taking their OWL's that year as somewhere between and Community Bot 1. JohnP JohnP 19k 3 3 gold badges 72 72 silver badges bronze badges. Those lazy anklebiters hate writing.

This is also assuming each year has the same number of students, while that is true for normal schools that works by sending excess students in a given year to a different under subscribed school. Hogwarts would not appear to have an equivalent outlet.

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But if there are a thousand students at Hogwarts, there would be between and students to sort every year. Even at the rate of two per minute, that would mean the sorting would last for over an hour. Would the rest of the students really be willing to sit for that long waiting to eat? I think it would get a bit long. On the other hand, there are about a hundred carriages to take students to the castle from the train station in Hogsmeade PA5.

There were also seats available around the tables at the Yule Ball GF