How many house-elves are there in Harry Potter?

Answer 1

It is never known how many students are at Hogwarts at any one time. It is thought by some fans that there are forty students in each year.

Ten for each house and five of each gender within the houses. Of course there are seven years so forty times seven makes a grand total of 280 every year, however this has never been confirmed and there are ways to disprove this such as the Gryffindor girls in Harry's year.

There are only three Gryffindor girl's mentioned who are: Hermione, Lavender and Parvati. Of course it is possible that there are another two girls who weren't mentioned but not likely and if you think of it: Hogwarts has more than enough space for 280 students and the films (although they cannot be considered canon in any way) show many more students than that amount and even the books give of the impression of more students than that.

J.K. Rowling has also stated that there are about one thousand students at Hogwarts during an interview.

It is also highly improbable that there are the exact same amount of people turning eleven and enrolling in Hogwarts ever year, and every British witch and wizard is eligible to attend.

Answer 2

There are fouse houses at hogwarts each were named after either a great witch or wizard (founder if you will). They all have their own mascot, ghost, common room.

Godric Gryffindor-Lion, Nearly Headless Nick, Gryffindor Tower

Helga Hufflepuff-Badger, The Fat Friar, Hufflepuff Basement

Rowena Ravenclaw

-Raven, The Grey Lady, Ravenclaw Tower

Salazar Slytherin-Snake, The Bloody Baron, Slytherin Dungeon

Answer 3

The other answer was nearly completely wrong, their are twenty ghost in total, not all are named.

The four house ghosts are as followed :

Gryffindor - Nearly Headless Nick ( Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington )

Slytherin- The Bloody Baron ( Unknown real name )

Ravenclaw - The Grey Lady ( Helena Ravenclaw )

Hufflepuff- The Fat Friar ( Unknown real name )

And the others:

Moaning Mrytle ( Resides in the 2nd floor girls toilet where she was killed )

Cuthbert Binns ( Fell asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up to teach and left his body behind, continues to teach History of Magic )

Cavalier ( Attended start of term feast in 1992 )

Patrick Delaney-Podmore ( Sir Properly-Decapitated Podmore )

Edgar Clogg- ( Hangs around Qudditch pitch and helps teams practice )

Peeves is NOT a ghost, he is a poltergeist.

Answer 4

There are five wizards (and three witches) in Harry's year in the Gryffindor house. If we use this as an average there are about forty students in each year. Seven years worth of students equals 250-300 students. Half of those students would be witches, so one can assume there are about 120-150 wizards at Hogwarts. Plus the male teachers and staff-members, of course.

Answer 5

Hundreds of people have been in Gryffindor house.

In Harry Potter's year there were five males (Harry, Ron, Neville, Dean and Seamus) and three females (Hermione, Parvati and Lavender) .

Many people believe that every year there are ten students sorted into each house: five boys and five girls. This would mean Hogwarts received 40 new students in every year, 20 of which were males and the other 20, females. This also means that there are two other female Gryffindor's in Harry's year.

If this is correct, there would be 70 students in Gryffindor house each school year (35 male and 35 female) and Hogwarts would have 280 students.

Answer 6

In the Wizarding World itself there are probably hundreds of house-elves, however only three are named in the books.

They are Winky the house-elf, Dobby the house-elf, and Kreacher the house-elf.there is also hokey the house elf

Answer 7

Four houses. Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin.

Answer 8

There are four houses at Hogwarts: Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and Slytherin.

Answer 9

There are four. Ravenclaw founded by Rowena Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff founded by Helga Hufflepuff, Gryffindor founded by Godric Gryffindor and Slytherin founded by Salazar Slytherin.