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

[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?