Harry Potter question

Does anyone know how many students actually attend Hogwarts every year?

According to the wiki, in Harry's year there are 8 Gryffindors, 9 Slytherins, 8-10 Hufflepuffs, and 10 Ravenclaws. But in Goblet of Fire, only 4 Gryffindors, 2 Slytherins, 4 Hufflepuffs, and 2 Ravenclaws are Sorted.

(Were there only five Gryffindors in Harry's parents' year? With Lily the only girl?)

This makes it very difficult to write a fic not about Harry and his peers. Do I just make characters up? Or ignore how imbalanced it seems?

The man with grey hands smiles - Avengers movieverse, PG13, Loki/Clint

Title: The man with grey hands smiles
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sylvia Plath
Warnings: torture; trauma; control issues; improperly punctuated dialogue due to stylistic choices
Pairings: Loki/Clint
Rating: PG13
Wordcount: 2390
Point of view: third
Notes: thanks to pprfaith for discussing a few things with me.
Prompt:

Clint is sent on a solo mission and is captured. He spends a long time in captivity, enduring terrible things. As the time goes by and no one comes for him, Clint starts to believe that the rest of the team and SHIELD have forgotten about him/doesn't care. (Would like the rest of the team to actually be searching, or Fury being a bastard and doesn't tell them what happened to Clint.)

So, seeing no way out, Clint gives up and resigns himself to his fate.

Enter Loki.

When Clint wakes up, he is clean, warm, not hurting and feels safe. And Loki can't be a bad guy when he just rescued Clint from hell, can he? And Clint has no idea how to repay his former enemy for that, but he sure is going to try.


(  He can’t even recall his name, but he knows, deep in his aching bones, that Tasha would never leave him. But she isn’t here. She hasn’t come for him. )