# Any cite for Harry Potter years?
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**Created:** [July 14, 2003, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cite-for-harry-potter-years/188408 "2003-07-14T16:30:14Z")
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### Author:  [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cite-for-harry-potter-years/188408/21 "2003-07-16T07:59:38Z")
Don’t Harry and co. have classes with Malfoy and co.? They’re certainly not in the same house, so the classes are probably just grouped by year and the different houses intermingle.
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### Author:  [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cite-for-harry-potter-years/188408/22 "2003-07-16T08:24:27Z")
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> Don’t Harry and co. have classes with Malfoy and co.? They’re certainly not in the same house, so the classes are probably just grouped by year and the different houses intermingle.
Actually I’m pretty sure that’s only when the Gryffindors have “Double Potions with the Slytherins” (I think they’ve also had Care of Magical Creatures with them, and Double Herbology with I believe the Hufflepuffs?) Anyway, in general as far as I can tell the classes are grouped by house.
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> Since Hermione took classes Harry and Ron didn’t, and there was zero explaination of her being let into another’s house’s class despite the fairly good explaination of how she took those classes, it seems to be that there must be other classes kids in a house could take at the same time
would definitely seem to be true.
Sorry if I’m stating the obvious here.
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### Author:  [@Lithium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lithium)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cite-for-harry-potter-years/188408/23 "2003-07-16T09:29:50Z")
I still think that the classes are scheduled using a system of “sets”, i.e each year has maybe 3 sets for each subject.
This is very complex, but it was the system I used when I was at boarding school.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cite-for-harry-potter-years/188408/24 "2003-07-16T09:30:23Z")
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> _Originally posted by lawoot_
> \*\*1000? Doubt THAT - based on Harry’s Gryffindor class (which, I think, had about 12 kids in it) as the average - that gives us 48 new kids a year, 7 years worth of students gives us about 336. \*\*
If you haven’t attended the UK school system, you might assume that a house is equivalent to a class. This isn’t true. At my school of 2,000 pupils, our classes (as in lessons) were mixed between our 4 houses. Each house had about 500 people in it.
Unless I’m misinterpreting your use of the word “class”. I think I might be, actually. When you say “class” do you mean the year’s intake of pupils (we’d call it a “year”)?
Furthermore, when the new pupils were put into their respective houses, was it made clear that these were the _only_ new pupils that year? Or were there several choosing ceremonies? Or did the narrative just highlight the main protagonists and ignore hundreds of others?
(I can’t believe I’m actually participating in this thread, as I only came to lurk and mock…)
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### Author:  [@Lithium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lithium)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cite-for-harry-potter-years/188408/25 "2003-07-16T09:38:03Z")
Having said what I just said, however, I do not think that the numbers would be anywhere near 1000, I would say maybe 500 Max.
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