Inspired by this post by @traceyc-uk about the lack of beds in the Ravenclaw dorms.
There's simple (and odd) mathematics about HL dorms and beds under the cut.
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So, Amit mentioned in his letter that he hadn't slept well recently because there weren't enough beds in his dorm. This matter requires an investigation! I will spare you details of how I managed to get into the Ravenclaw common room. We, Slytherins, have to be resourceful, right? So let's cut to the chase.
So far, I can see that the Ravenclaw boys' dormitory has only 3 (WTF?!) rooms: one labelled as '5th years' and two unlabelled rooms, each with four beds.
There are also two rooms labelled as '7th years'. For some reason, they are located between boys' and girls' dorms and are not separated by gender (boys have access to each of them).
The beds here look more comfortable than the bunk beds in the rest of the dorm, and there are only three of them in each room instead of four.
The first pic -Ā Ā aĀ bed for 7th-years,Ā Ā theĀ second one -Ā forĀ the rest.Ā
Now, I need to check the Ravenclaw girls' dormitory. These metal dudes didn't let me in because I hadn't solved the problem of me being a boy yet.
Have I mentioned that Slytherins have to be resourceful?Ā Apparently, now I look convincing because the guard doesn't mind me anymore. I only hope it's not permanent - it's very inconvenient to be THAT short.
The girls' dormitory is symmetrical to the boys' one (looking ahead, it is not so in the other houses' dorms) ā one room forĀ 5th-yearsĀ and two unlabelled ones, with four beds each.
So, that's what we have for Ravenclaw dorms.
30 beds for all the Raveclaws in Hogwarts. Apparently, the Ravenclaw dormitory doesn't just lack beds for 5th-year students; it also doesn't have enough dorms for the other year groups. I guess Ravenclaws were meant to sleep in the library after all.
Griffindor has the same problem, but its dorms have even fewer beds (26 in total).Ā They don't have special rooms forĀ 7th-years, and only those forĀ 5th-yearsĀ are labelled.
The situation is much better in the Hufflepuffs' dorms, which seem to have the simplest logic ā every year group has a labelled room, and all the rooms are separated by gender. Each room has either 3 or 4 beds. There are no special rooms for 7th-years.Ā
Slytherin's dormitory is similar to Hufflepuff's in that regard, with one exception ā 7th-years' dorms are just like in the Ravenclaw tower ā they are posher than others and aren't separated by gender.
So, in total, Slytherin has 50 beds, Hufflepuff - 47, Ravenclaw - 30, and Griffindor - 26.
The logic behind it? Well, it looks like the developers were limited by the castle's outer layout, so the Ravenclaw and Criffindor dorms, located in towers, just didn't have enough space. However, I still can't understand why Ravenclaw and Slytherin 7th-years are so special. Anyway, I can't stop being amazed at the colossal job the developers did on the locations, they all look fantastic.
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