The sadder thing is that Eliezer doesn’t seem particularly bothered with numbers either. The “armies” each of the generals have are mentioned to have 24 soldiers each.
24x3=72 students in the first year. This would only make sense if the size of the classes in MoR were about twice as big as in canon. But MoR has never mentioned a single non-canonical first-year student, as far as I can remember, which would imply the opposite, that the sizes of the classes must be about as big as in canon (namely about 40 students in the first year, all houses combined).
EDIT TO ADD: above comment now retracted as factually false, see comments below.
The sadder thing is that Eliezer doesn’t seem particularly bothered with numbers either.
I beg your pardon. Check Ch. 30 and you should see some non-canonical first-year student cameos in Draco’s army. For, may I mention, exactly that reason—I was explicitly familiar with the dilemma of the discordant Rowling statements and decided to resolve in favor of Hogwarts having around a thousand students, so that having around half the students sign up for the armies would give you 72 first-year soldiers.
The sadder thing is that Eliezer doesn’t seem particularly bothered with numbers either. The “armies” each of the generals have are mentioned to have 24 soldiers each.
24x3=72 students in the first year. This would only make sense if the size of the classes in MoR were about twice as big as in canon. But MoR has never mentioned a single non-canonical first-year student, as far as I can remember, which would imply the opposite, that the sizes of the classes must be about as big as in canon (namely about 40 students in the first year, all houses combined).
EDIT TO ADD: above comment now retracted as factually false, see comments below.
I beg your pardon. Check Ch. 30 and you should see some non-canonical first-year student cameos in Draco’s army. For, may I mention, exactly that reason—I was explicitly familiar with the dilemma of the discordant Rowling statements and decided to resolve in favor of Hogwarts having around a thousand students, so that having around half the students sign up for the armies would give you 72 first-year soldiers.
Ah, nice. I also see some names like “Melvin Coote of Gryffindor” and “Allen Flint” of Slytherin, in the Chaos army.
Apologies for the mistake.