A.N: Here's chapter 5. I'm sorry it took me so long to uplode this chapter because I had to write it from scratch and I have been revising for some exams i have next week. However, I've made it extra long, so, forgive me? :-P hope you enjoy it anyway!

Disclaimer: I dont own the Harry Potter series , characters or the magical terms ect. I only own my own characters.

Chapter 5 - the sorting hat

Alex settled back into her seat holding a sweet wrapped in a purple wrapper and labelled 'Chocolate Frogs' and a packet of 'Drouble's best blowing gum'. She was just about to unwrap a chocolate frog when, out of her eye, she saw the boy with bleach blond hair from earlier walk passed the open compartment door.

"Hey, it's Malfoy." James sneered loudly. The boy turned round to see James smirking. "Is your Dad in Azkaban yet?" the boy froze, his hands by his sides in tight fists.

"My dad's a good wizard!" The boy shouted and James laughed.

"Sure he is." James laughed sarcastically. "Did your dad ever tell you about the time my dad saved his life? You owe me Malfoy."

"I don't owe you anything, you arrogant git!" Malfoy yelled. James stood up, still smirking.

"What did you say?"

"You're an arrogant git." He repeated. James whipped his wand out of the pocket of his jeans and within seconds, was pointing it at the boy.

"You want to be careful with who you mess with Malfoy. My dad's a powerful wizard. I'll teach you to respect your superiors." James was still smirking. Alex jumped up, startling Ghost who was sitting on her shoulder and Moon who was sitting on her lap. Moon jumped onto the floor and Ghost flew up into the air. Before Alex new what she was doing, she had her own wand out and was pointing it at James. James turned around, startled.

"Leave him alone you jerk." Alex said. She'd had enough of his attitude.

"You stay out of it. You don't know anything about it." James said turning around and pointing his wand at Alex.

"Aguamenti." Alex said calmly and a jet of water shot out of her wand and drenched James. She smiled as she took in his shocked face. It served him right. She heard laughter from behind her as she left the compartment.

Malfoy was watching the scene, smirking, as Alex walked up to him.

"Hey. Malfoy, is it? Where are you sitting?" Alex asked, grinning.

"I'll show you if you like. Why though?" he was still smirking.

"I don't think they'll want me sitting there now. Even though I was there first." Alex laughed.

"Well, I guess you can sit with me. I have my own compartment. The people I was sharing it with went down the train. Apparently someone's selling Weasleys Wizard Weezys products." Malfoy said as he and Alex walked down the train. "I'm Scorpius Malfoy by the way."

"I'm Alexandra Adams. But you can call me Alex." Alex said smiling as they reached and entered Malfoy's compartment. Alex sat down on the seat opposite Malfoy, next to the window and Moon jumped up onto the seat next to her.

"Hey, Scorpius. Do you want a chocolate frog? You didn't end up buying anything, did you?" Alex asked as she took the three chocolate frogs out of her hoodie pocket and tossed one to Malfoy, who caught it.

"Thanks Alex." he said unwrapping it. To Alex's surprise, the chocolate frog jumped out of its wrapper and tried to make a break for it, but Malfoy caught it and it went still. He popped it into his mouth and then took a card out if the wrapper. He grinned.

"Yes! I've been trying to get this card for ages! You must be good luck Alex." He said and when Alex asked what the cards were, he told her how people collected them. They all had some facts and a picture of a famous witch or wizard on them and they were a few hundred of them to collect.

Wanting to see her cards, Alex opened one of her frogs. She caught the frog, which froze in her hand, and put it in her mouth as she flipped the card over. She almost spat it back out when a picture of a black haired wizard with green eyes and a scar shaped like lightning flashed a smile at her and waved before walking out of the picture. Over the picture in bold red lettering was the name Harry Potter.

"H...he m...moved!" Alex gasped and Malfoy laughed.

"'Course he did. He is a picture."

"In the Muggle world, pictures don't move." Alex said getting over her shock.

"Really? Don't they get tiered?" Malfoy asked seriously and it was Alex's turn to laugh.

"No. They're not alive!"

"Really? That's strange." Malfoy said and Alex shook her head.

"Whatever. So where's he gone?" she asked looking at the blank frame.

"You can't expect him to stay I side his frame forever!" Malfoy chuckled.

"In the Muggle world they do!" Alex explained studying the card as Harry Potter strolled back into his frame and waved. So that's what the famous Harry Potter looked like. He was like an older version of Albus but with glasses and a scar on his forehead. It was easy to see that Albus was his son.
Alex and Malfoy talked a bit about what Hogwarts might be like and about the houses. Alex found out Malfoy wanted to be in Slytherin because his whole family had been in Slytherin.

Malfoy told Alex a bit more about the houses and she secretly decided that she didn't really want to be in Slytherin or Huffelpuff. Gryffindor sounded alright but when she heard that James Potter was in Gryffindor, she changed her mind. The other option was Ravenclaw and Alex decided that she wanted to be in that house. She was smart and loved the colour blue. She did not, however, want to be in Slytherin. She didn't have anything against Malfoy and she was sure they were some decent people in Slytherin, but Alex had a bad feeling about the house. She opened her second chocolate frog and ate it, but, deciding that she didn't want to collect the cards, gave her card to Malfoy who put it in his pocket along with his own.

Malfoy told her about his father and mother, Draco and Astoria Malfoy. How they hated the Potters and Weasleys. Then he asked about Alex's parents and she had to go over the painful topic all over again. She made it as brief as she could, not wanting to get into the details. She hadn't gotten far in her story however, when Malfoy interrupted her.

"Weren't they in the Daily Prophet five years ago?" Malfoy asked when Alex mentioned her parents.

"That's what I've heard." Alex said glumly.

"It was all over the news for several weeks. The Aurors are still trying to find Phoenix but no one's seen him for at least two years, in fact most people have forgotten about him, think he's gone. But I don't think so; I think he's just hiding, gathering an army or something. There was something like that ages ago. I think they called it the battle of Hogwarts. My dad was there you know!" Malfoy said proudly and Ale sighed. So Phoenix was either gone or in hiding. Alex had missed feeling about that. On one hand, it would make it very difficult to find him. On the other, however, it would mean that it was highly unlikely that anyone else would find him and kill him, so when Alex did find him, he would be alive and ready for Alex to take revenge.

A few hours later, Rose opened the compartment door. Alex and Malfoy looked up at her as she stood in the entry.

"We're almost at Hogwarts. You should get changed into you're uniform." She told Alex. Alex nodded and stood up and followed Rose to the changing rooms in the back of the train. Alex put on her uniform, leaving the pointy hat off, and went back into the compartment followed by Rose.

Malfoy had also changed and now wore the boys' uniform, Black trousers, shoes and a white shirt under a similar black cloak to the girls'. Rose sat next to Alex and the three of them chatted about Hogwarts. Alex told them how shocked she had been when Cho had arrived at her doorstep and told her she was a Witch. Rose and Malfoy laughed and Rose told her that her mum was also a Muggle born.

After another hour or so, they felt the train come to a smooth stop. They looked out of the window to find that it was night. "We're here!" Rose called excitedly and Alex grinned, equally excited. "We leave our bags here, someone comes and takes them in for us. I think you should also leave your cat and owl, Alex." Rose said and Alex nodded. She told Moon and Ghost that she would see them later.

'Good luck!' Moon told her and Ghost hooted softly. Rose slid the compartment door open and the three of them joined the rush of bodies that were exiting the train.

"Hey. Rose, Alex!" A voice called from the crowded passageway and the two girls turned round. It was Albus, squeezing his way through the crowd towards them. He reached them just as they had gotten off the train.

"First years! Any First years?" A giant of a man with unruly brown hair and a beard called out repeatedly.

"Hagrid!" Albus and Rose called out and the man looked up.

"Albus, Rose! C'm 'eer" Hagrid called and Alex, Rose and Scorpius followed Albus to Hagrid. Albus and Rose hugged Hagrid and Alex and Malfoy hung back awkwardly. "'You excited about going to Hogwarts?" he asked and Albus and Rose nodded. "I see you've made a new friend." Hagrid said smiling at Alex with two small beetle eyes.

"Yes, this is Alex." Rose said and Alex smiled and greeted him.

"Well you wait 'eer while I gather up the first years." Hagrid said to them before walking away calling the First years as he went. They waited, watching as the train cleared. Alex watched as the people pile into carriages pulled by what looked like winged horses. They looked quite spooky, completely black except for the eyes that were white and emotionless. They a skeletal body and a face with reptilian features and a pair of wide, leathery wings that slightly resembled a bat's.

"What are those?" She asked Rose who looked over at the carriages.

"They're the carriages that the other students ride in to get to Hogwarts." She explained.

"No, I mean the thing pulling the carriage." Alex said.

"Nothing's pulling the carriage." Rose said peering at the carriages. "It's probably some sort of spell to make them move on their own."

"No, those are Thestrals." Albus spoke up. "My dad told me about them. You can only see them if you've watched someone die. That's why we can't see them." So they were Thestrals. They looked quite scary, Alex thought.

Soon after Hagrid came back up to them, leading a group of first years. "Alright, let's go. Follow me!" Hagrid said and the first years followed him down to a huge lake. By the shore, in the water, sat lots of little boats. "Alright. Four to a boat." Hagrid said and the first years started to filter into the boats. Alex, Rose, Albus and Scorpius got into a boat and waited for everyone to get settled in. Once everyone was in a boat, Hagrid (who took up a whole boat) smiled as he said, "Okay, let's go!" and with that, the little boats started to move across the dark lake.

They sat in the moving boats for around twenty minutes before they caught their first glimpse of Hogwarts. Alex gasped along with the other students as they saw it. Hogwarts. A huge castle made of stone complete with towers and turrets. It rested in the middle of a gigantic valley and had a huge lake surrounding the south side of it. Alex stared, transfixed, at the castle. It was light up and looked eerie in the darkness. She was so entranced that she jumped when the boats gently bumped against the bank on the other side of the lake. They got out of their boats and followed Hagrid up some stairs that were set in the rocky hillside, leading to the castle.

Hagrid stopped them outside a huge, double, solid looking oak door. He knocked and almost immediately it was opened by a witch wearing an emerald green cloak and pointy witch's hat. She was middle aged and had mousey brown hair that was pulled back into a bun. She beckoned them in and Hagrid left. She turned to the first years, who were crowded together in the large entrance hall.

"Hello first years, I'm Professor Susan Bones, the deputy head." She greeted the first years. They were standing in a huddle, looking around at the huge and unfamiliar room. "Please wait here for a while. You'll be going into the main hall in a bit for the sorting. It's a sort of test. It will determine which house you'll be in." She said before she left. The first years stood closer together and a wave of nausea hit Alex who gripped Rose's hand. She was nervous. By the looks on everyone else's faces, they were too. Alex wondered what they would have to do. Maybe some spells or a general test. She counted the spells she knew in her head. 1, 2, 3, 4. She knew four spells. But would that be enough? She doubted it. Or there could be the general test. What if it wasn't on normal things like science, maths or English? What if it was on magical things? Things Alex knew next to nothing about. What if she did so badly that they sent her away? What if she lost her only chance of finding the man who killed her family? The nauseating feeling grew in Alex's stomach as Professor Bones came back. Professor Bones put the first years into Alphabetical order for surnames. Alex frowned because she was near the front. She would just have to try her hardest. She couldn't fail this. She just couldn't, she refused to. She stood up straighter and followed the others. They were led away from the entrance, through a corridor and through a pair of double doors into the great hall. Alex gasped as she looked around the room, as did the other first years. The main hall was lit by thousands and thousands of candles that were floating in midair over four long tables, where the rest of the students were sitting. These tables were laid with glittering golden plates and goblets. At the top of the hall was another long table where the teachers were sitting. Mainly to avoid all of the staring eyes Alex looked up at the ceiling. To her surprise, it didn't look like there was a ceiling at all. It was velvety black and dotted with stars. She heard Rose whisper beside her. "It's bewitched to look like the sky. I read about it in Hogwarts a History." Alex turned her eyes back to in front of her as Professor Bones silently placed a four legged stool in front of the first years. On top of the stool, she put a pointy wizard's hat. The hat was patched and frayed. Alex looked at the hat curiously. Maybe it was part of their test, maybe they had to get a rabbit out of it, or make it disappear. It seemed like the sort of thing a wizard or witch might do. The rest of the hall was staring at the hat, waiting. For a few seconds, there was complete silence. Then, the hat twitched. A rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth and, to Alex's surprise, the hat began to sing.

Oh you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat
And I can cap them all.

There's nothing hidden in your head
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you
Where you ought to be.

You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve, and chivalry
Set Gryffindors' apart;

You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs' are true
And unafraid of toil;

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
if you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;

Or perhaps in Slytherin
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.

So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap!
You're in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!

The whole hall burst into applause as the hat finished its song. It bowed to each of the four tables before becoming still again.

"So we've just got to try on the hat!" Rose whispered and Albus nodded.

"Yeah. My dad told me this morning."

"Then why didn't you tell us?" Alex asked.

"You never asked."

Alex sighed with relief but she didn't really feel much better. Yes, trying on the hat was a lot better than having to do a spell, but she wished they could have tried it on without everyone watching.

Professor Bones stepped forward. "Now, when I call out your name, sit on the stool to be sorted." She paused for a moment looking at the first years. They were no longer in the alphabetical line she had carefully put them in. They had left the line to stand with their friends. She sighed before saying.

"Abbott, Avery." A pink faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of line and carefully put on the hat, which fell down over her eyes and sat down. There was a moments' pause before the hat shouted,

"Hufflepuff!" The table on the far right cheered as the girl stood up and took off the hat, looking slightly relieved and went to sit down on the Hufflepuff table.

"Aaron, Roxanne." Professor Bones called out and a girl the same height as Alex stepped out of the line. She had curly black hair pulled back into a pony tail and tanned skin. She put the hat on and sat down. It also fell over her eyes. There was another pause before the hat shouted out.

"Ravenclaw!" Roxanne got up as the second table to the left cheered and went to sit down.

"Adams, Alex." Professor Bones called out and Alex froze. It was her turn. She inhaled deeply, trying to calm herself and stepped out of the crowed of first years. She walked over to the stool and put the hat on. The hat slipped over her eyes and she sat down, looking at the dark inside of the hat. Hmm, said a small voice in her ear, 'Difficult.' The hat mused. 'You have a brilliant mind and a brave and loyal heart; however, you are ambitious and cunning, a bit of each house. So where shall I put you.'

Alex gripped the edge of the stool nervously and thought really hard. 'I want to find Phoenix. Put me in the house that will help me find Phoenix!'

'You want to find Phoenix? An impossible goal.' The hat told her.

'I have to! He killed my family!' Alex told the hat. 'Please help me!'

'Well, I guess I could… the house that helps you find Phoenix you say? I'm not sure there is a house that can do that for you. But I guess you can try. Well…it should be…' the hat paused before shouting"Ravenclaw." to the rest of the hall. Alex stood up and took the hat off, putting it back on the stool as the Ravenclaw table cheered and clapped. She went and sat down on the bench next to Roxanne. Once Alex was sitting down, she could see the high table more clearly. Hagrid gave her a thumbs up and she smiled. In the centre of the high table, in a large gold chair, sat an old witch wearing a black cloak. She had greying hair that was scraped into a tight bun and her face was stern but kind. She must be the headmistress. Alex thought.

Professor Bones called out the next name, "Becket, Amber." And she became the first Gryffindor. Alex watched as students tried on the hat and then went to sit at their tables. A few more people passed before it was Scorpius Malfoy's turn. He was put in Slytherin and he walked over to the table, looking proud with himself. After a while Alex started to pay less attention to the people who were being sorted. She did see Albus being sorted into Gryffindor with James. When it was Rose's turn, Alex paid closer attention. Rose walked up and tried on the hat. After a few minutes, it shouted, "Ravenclaw!" and Rose jumped up and went to join Alex on the Ravenclaw's table. Alex gave her a high five her as she sat down, grinning. There were only five more people left to be sorted and it took less than five minutes for them to be sitting in their houses.

Once everyone was sorted, Professor Bones rolled up her scroll and took the sorting hat away. The headmistress got to her feet and smiled at the students.

"Welcome, students, to another year at Hogwarts. To any of you who don't know, I am Professor McGonagall, the Headmistress of this school. Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. I hope we have another excellent year at Hogwarts and please look out for all of the first years. That's all, may the feast begin!" She sat back down and everybody clapped and cheered. Alex looked back at the table and gasped as she saw the once empty dishes. They were now piled with food. Alex had never seen so much food on one table. There was every type of food she could think of and even some she had never seen before. There was roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops, lamb chops, sausages, bacon, steak, eggs cooked in every way she could think of. There were chips, potatoes, pasta, spaghetti, noodles, and different types of bread, Yorkshire pudding, peas, carrots, salad, tomatoes, gravy, ketchup, mayonnaise and for some strange reason, peppermint humbugs. Alex looked around the table, trying to take everything in. After a few minutes, everyone started to dig in to the feast, so, Alex piled her plate with a bit of everything, apart from the humbugs and began to eat. It was all delicious.

She was half way through her meal when she noticed everyone turn their heads to the front of the great hall. She also turned to look with everyone else. She gasped in shock as four silvery, almost transparent figures melted through the wall and into the great hall. They were…Ghosts!

They glided towards the four tables slowly. It seemed like each ghost belonged to one of the four houses. A tall, female ghost with dark wavy hair that reached her lower back floated up to the Ravenclaw's table. She was wearing a white dress that looked like it belonged in the medieval times. Her skin was fair and she held her head up proudly. She smiled and waved at the Ravenclaws as she neared the table.

"Hello my dear Ravenclaw's." She greeted the table. "And to the first years who may not have heard of me before, I am Helena Ravenclaw, daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of the Ravenclaw house. I am Ravenclaw's ghost. She smiled and hovered by the tables, chatting with some of the students as they finished their meals. Once they had finished, the plates disappeared and were almost immediately replaced with dessert dishes. There was, like the main course, every single dessert Alex could imagine. However, she was quite full and only had room for a scoop of ice cream. They washed their meals down with a glass of pumpkin juice, which Alex had never tried before but liked instantly.

Once the feast was over, the plates vanished and Professor McGonagall stood up again. The hall fell silent as he began to talk.

"Now that we are fed and watered, I have a few notices to give you. As always, the forbidden forest is out of bounds to all students. I have also been asked by Master Filch, the caretaker, to remind you all that no magic should be used between classes in the corridors. Quidditch trials will be held in the second wing of the term. Anyone interested in playing for their house teams should contact Professor Woods. And now, before we go to bed, let us sing the School song. For those of you who don't know the tune, then just follow the words, you'll learn soon enough." Professor McGonagall gave her wand a little flick and a long golden ribbon flew out of the end. It rose high above the tables and twisted itself into words. "Okay, one two three…" The great hall burst into song, save for the first years, who didn't know the tune.

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald,
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling,
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."

The song ended and every one broke into applause. Alex though it was a silly song but didn't say anything. The tune was quite catchy though. "That's all for tonight. Now, bed time. First years, please follow your prefects to your common rooms and dorms."

"First years, come this way, first years!" The two Ravenclaw prefects gathered all of the first years into a huddle and then separated them into girls and boys. Alex stood with the girls, looking up at one of the prefects. She had long blonde hair and was extremely pretty.

"Hello, first years. I'm Victorie Weasley, one of the prefects. He's Nicholas Gabbens; he's also a prefect." She gestured to the other prefect who was talking with the boys. "Now follow me and I'll take you to the dorms." She said and the girls followed her out of the Great hall and up a marble staircase. Alex's legs felt like lead because she had just realised she was tiered and full of food. They walked for ages, going up stair cases and through corridors. She was too tired to be surprised that a staircase moved as they were walking by and that the people in the painting along the walls were talking and waving at them as they walked passed.

She felt like she had been walking forever when they finally stopped outside a door after climbing a long, winding staircase. By the side of the door, on the wall, was an electrical blue, modern looking pad. Victorie walked towards it and placed her hand on it. It came to life, scanning her hand before they heard a soft click coming from the door. "You have to scan your hand to enter the common room. We have already installed all of your hand prints already, so it will recognise you. We used to have a system where you were asked a question but the room kept getting broken into because people would start bringing books with them to find the answer. One of the Ravenclaw students invented this actually. It's very cleaver because electrical things don't usually work in the Hogwarts barrier. But this does." She exclaimed as she opened the door and let them in.

The Ravenclaw common room was wide and circular and decorated mostly in blue. It had a fluffy midnight blue carpet arched windows hung with soft blue and bronze silks, and a domed ceiling painted with stars. The room was furnished with tables, chairs, and bookcases; and by a door, which Alex guessed led up to the dormitories, stood a tall statue made of white marble of a lady that looked quite a lot like the ghost Helena Ravenclaw. Maybe it was Rowena Ravenclaw.

"During the day we have an excellent view of the school grounds, including the lake, Forbidden Forest, Quidditch pitch, Herbology gardens and the surrounding mountains. It's because we're in one of the towers." Victorie explained. "The girls' dormitories are through there, through the door to the right and up the stairs. The boys' dormitories are through the left door." Alex was right, it was to the dormitories. She and the other first year girls followed Victorie through the door and up the marble, spiral staircase, into the girls' dormitories. There were seven doors, one for each year group and they went through the first.

There was blue silk draped over the archway that led from the stairs to the first year girls' dormitories. They walked through it and came into another airy, circular room. It had a light wooden floor and the walls were painted a light blue. The ceiling was also domed and there were similar windows round the walls to the common room. There was another door leading out of the dorm. In the room there were six four poster beds with blue sheets, pillows and duvets and silk curtains lined round the room, one for each of the six girls including Alex. Next to the beds were fancy white, wooden bedside tables and chest of draws to put their things in.

Alex noticed that there bags had already been brought up and when Victorie told the girls where their beds were, Alex noticed that Moon was already sleeping on hers. Her bed was in the middle of Rose's and Roxanne's beds. "The bathrooms are through that door over there, through that door." Victorie told them before leaving the room. Alex decided to have a shower before going to sleep and entered the bathroom along with a few other girls. The bathroom had a short corridor with six doors leading of it. Each of the doors had a name in graved into the door in swirly lettering. Alex quickly found hers and went in. The floor was tiled white as well as the walls and in it was a sink, bath, shower and toilet, all shining white. There was also a shelf lined with soaps and shampoos and conditioners and sponges and a towel hung on a hook. She locked the door, had a shower, brushed her hair and got dressed into her pajamas.

By the time she was finished, most of the girls were going to bed and she was exausted. She climbed under her covers, drew her silk curtains and fell asleep to the sound of wind whistling around the windows of the tower.

A.N: Hope you enjoyed chapter 5! I'm going to try and upload a chapter a week. If you were wondering about the Hogwarts song, I have used the tune they used in the movies because I didnt thing prof. McGonagall was the type to be using the old tunes. (If you've read the book you'll know what i mean!). I hope you liked the chapter. Tell me what you think. Please review, it gives me motivation to uplode faster. The more reviews, the faster the chapters come. Also, my friend told me about a site called Pottermore. Aparently its really good. Its now open to the public so check it out!

Also...

I've read a few fanficitons and now that I have an account, I want to tell you about some.
For all of the twilight fans, 'Stuck in twilight' by SaraLovesYou, is really good.
For the people who like the Vampire Academy books, 'Lost Memories' and 'Breaking her walls down' by ncisfangirl are good.

If you have any fanficitons that you like or that you have written and want me to read them, please review or P.M me.

Now...time for some math...

Number of hogwarts students:

Okay, so I Googled how many students they were in Hogwarts and it came up with around 1000. It sounded okay but, once I did the math; it seemed a bit too many.

I decided to change the number of how many Hogwarts students there would be in Hogwarts in my story because if they were 1000 students in Hogwarts, then there would be 250 students in each house, which also sounds okay (apart from the fact that when I imagine them all gathering in a common room, it would be a bit crowded). But, if you break it down some more, it doesn't quite fit. They are 7 years so, in a house, there would be about 35 people in each year. Half girls half boys. For around 17 people to share a dorm; it would be a little bit squashed and when they have classes, it says that they have two houses in a class (the same years). That would make 70 students in a class room, which is also a bit too many.

So, I changed the numbers a bit, (hope you don't mind)

There are 336 students in Hogwarts, which might sound little, but it works. There are 84 students in each house. In each year in a house, there are 12 students, 6 girls and 6 boys. 6 people share a dorm. In a class there would be 24 students (which sounds about right).

Remember R&R and I'll uplode the next chapter A.S.A.P