i feel like no one on this goddamn website realizes that
the reason why there are only 5 guys and 3 girls in gryffindor in harry’s year is that all of the students were born during or right after a war
people dont have as many kids during a war. kids die during a war.
i can bet you that in the marauders era there was 10 or maybe even 15 gryffindor boys in their year. the wizarding community was probably way bigger at the time.
so everytime i see a hc about “the fifth guy who shared a dorm with them” im always a bit put of bc… maybe there had a dorm to themselves and there was another one with 5 other kid or something. maybe there was 2 or 3 other guys there ( although lets all admit the first one seems more conveniant for fanfics ).
the wizarding community doesnt have a fixed number of kids in each house and this number is certainly not the same a few years before a war and right after
Fuck JKR 