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.

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[zaph.livejournal.com]

Well, there are also about 8000 wizards and witches in the UK and Ireland, but we don't know all of them by name, either. :)

But also, the books aren't about the time MWPP were at Hogwarts, either, so the only times we ever see them or hear about them are when they're outside their dorm - it's entirely possible they did drive their other housemates crazy, but we just never hear about it, because it doesn't advance the plot.

I think we're meant to understand that there are also students at Hogwarts in Harry's time who we've never been introduced to, or who aren't mentioned by name at a particular time - where was Zacharias Smith when the Hufflepuff second-years were all avoiding Harry in Chamber of Secrets? Might Romilda Vane have been 'a second-year' who asked Harry to the Yule Ball in Goblet of Fire?

For that matter, there's also a mysterious Muggle Studies teacher whose name is entirely unknown to us...