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Hogwarts WEIRD Population EXPLAINED | Harry Potter Film Theory

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

News, Entertainment News, Tv & Film

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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H E L.P dot com. Why are there so few students at Hogwarts? Hey brother

0:20.4

let's do some quick math here we know in Harry's year there are 10

0:25.0

griffondors, five boys and five girls. And if that holds true for the

0:29.3

other three houses, it means his entire graduating class is about 40 people big, and that the student population

0:35.8

of the entire castle is just 280?

0:39.0

And this makes the wizarding population seem really small when you consider that Hogwarts is like the only school serving the

0:45.8

greater British area, which means in the entire country just 40 new people are entering the workforce.

0:54.0

Just 40 people who are buying houses, settling down and contributing to the local economy.

0:59.0

40 potential people to join the professional Quiddage teams.

1:04.2

Actually I think it would be even way less than that.

1:06.4

It would just be the number of seventh years who also played Quidditch at Hogwarts,

1:11.1

so maybe like five?

1:13.4

Wait, Oliver would, man who cared more about Quidditch

1:16.7

than anyone in the history of the sport only makes,

1:20.7

let me see here, the Puddle Meer United Practice Squad. Is it possible that Oliver Wood is actually a terrible keeper? I mean, we know for a fact that the chuddly cannons are terrible and he's still only good enough for the

1:34.3

Puddle Meer practice team?

1:35.8

I think this is a good opportunity for more math because if there are 40 new Wizards per year,

1:40.8

an average life expectancy is let's say 80.

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