Dauntless Initiate Bunk Beds Mystery

Check Our Math And Help Us Solve the Mystery!

In our copy of the book Divergent by Veronica Roth, we cannot quite figure out the whole number of bunk beds during Dauntless initiation mathematics. 

The line in question is when Eric is showing the new Dauntless initiates to their room. He says, "Behind this door is the room where you will be sleeping for the next few weeks. You will notice that there are ten beds and only nine of you. We anticipated that a larger proportion of you would make it this far."

"But we started with twelve," Christina replied. Woah, woah, woah, wait... the math doesn't add up!

Christina Can't Count

As you can see by the list of initiates on the right, there were originally eleven initiates that we knew of.

• The red-headed Erudite boy was not able to run and jump on the train and became factionless at this point.
• The only Amity transfer was too scared to jump off of the train onto the rooftop and became factionless.

There was another initiate that did not make it when jumping from the train to the roof, but she was Dauntless-born. When Eric said that there were ten beds and nine initiates, his math was correct.

This leaves us with a mystery... Where did Christina get the number 12 for the number of transfer initiates?

List of Non-Dauntless Born Initiates:

1. Beatrice / Tris
2. Christina
3. Will
4. Peter
5. Molly
6. Drew
7. Edward
8. Myra
9. Al
10. Amity boy stayed on train
11. Erudite boy didn't make train

What Does It Mean?

Was there another transfer initiate that we have missed?

Was the book changed later on and the math was not corrected?

What does it mean?? Divergent fans need to know!!