HARRY'S HOGWARTS CLASS IS SMALL BECAUSE OF A BABY DROUGHT


Plausibility: strong
In 2000, JK Rowling went on record and said that there are about 1,000 students overall at Hogwarts. If you break that down it means that for every year there should be about 35 kids per house. But, if you pay close attention to the books, there are only ten Gryffindors in Harry's year. (Boys: Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean Thomas, and Seamus Finnigan; Girls: Hermione, Lavender, Pravati, Elois Midgen, and Romilda Vane). Since these kids all would have been born during the height of the first wizarding war, some fans have theorized that this is due to a baby drought. Since Voldemort was knocking around being all evil, witches and wizards were just trying to focus on making it through the next day, not having kids. We gotta say, this checks out.
Part of my new fan theory section of the Hogwarts Daily News
-Samantha Martin
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