Harry Potter question

[dr4b]

I don't follow the fan sites at all, so I just realized something weird while thinking about it on the bus this morning, and I'm sure this has come up elsewhere: if in every year at Hogwarts there are 40 kids, 5 per gender per house (and is this true? maybe not), you have to wonder who the fifth guy was sharing a dorm with Sirius, James, Peter, and Remus. and wouldn't it have totally driven them nuts?

Unless, of course, there were more than 5 per year then, maybe if there were 8 or 9, then the four of them would have had a room to themselves or something.

I also have to wonder what the heck it must be like being the other kids in the same room as Fred and George Weasley. Oh man. Well, I guess they're friends with Lee Jordan, but... well, we never hear of any others, so hm.

Comments

[wandelrust.livejournal.com]

I thought in the first two books there was another kid in Fred and George's year besides Lee, but I can't for the life of me remember who.

I also got the impression that the classes weren't set at size 40. There just seems to be way more than 280 kids at Hogwarts. I just assumed that Harry's class/gender/house combination was small, or there was another male Gryffendor dorm room of his year, and we just didn't hear much about them.

[dr4b]

Yeah, you're probably right, the older kids were mentioned more in the earlier books and had graduated by the later books, maybe.

I don't think they have enough for another dorm room his year though -- not enough gaps in the "another student or two, then --" part of the sorting hat?

[zaph.livejournal.com]

Kenneth Towler is the fourth Gryffindor boy in the twins' year. He's mentioned in Order of the Phoenix as having come out in boils during their fifth year because Fred put Bulbadox powder in his pyjamas, which strongly implies they shared a dorm.