Yahoo News Why are Harry Potter's Hogwarts classes so small?
The last Harry Potter book may have come out in 2007 and the last movie in 2011, but here's a nice reminder that JK Rowling's magical series will be messing with our brains for the rest of our lives.
A Potter fan has spotted a clever link between the first war against Voldemort and the number of students in Harry's school year at Hogwarts - and it's pretty depressing.
While JK Rowling has previously stated that about 1,000 students attended the wizarding school during Harry's era, eagle-eyed fans noticed if you do the maths by dividing the 1,000 students by seven years at Hogwarts, you get 143.
Then divide those students up by the number of houses within Hogwarts, which is four, and that brings you to 35. Yet there seemed to only be around 18 boys in Harry's year.
A Tumblr user points out: "What if there were less students in the Hogwarts Class of 1998 because the period when the other kids would have been conceived (1979-1981) was when Voldemort's reign of power was at its peak?
"Between the dozens of adults who joined the Order, the dozens of civilians who were killed in Death Eater raids, and the dozens of adults that didn't want to bring a child into the world, just then… It's actually entirely possible that there was a baby drought for a few years in the wizarding world, leading to a smaller class size a decade later."
So basically Voldemort ruining the world back in the late '70s/early '80s was the reason there weren't more wizards born to later attend Hogwarts. And obviously the Weasleys couldn't afford the contraceptive potion…
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