HWGA -- Number of students

[Cepheus42]

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Subject: Re: HWGA -- Number of students
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Date: 8/15/00 9:59 am  (ET)

>>Without having gone farther into the numbers, a student body as
small as 300 argues a society so small with a birthrate so low it isn't
sustainable.<<

Not necessarily. Remember, there are at least two other European schools
that we know of now, and it was implied (I think) that these were just
the major schools, so there could be others. That does not account for
schools in other parts of the globe as well.

In addition, the number of students who attend the schools do not
account for students who may not be accepted to any school or whose
parents refuse to let them attend one of the wizarding schools. And
we are already aware of the fact that wizard children might be born of
muggle parents, thus the society is being regenerated even if you were
to kill off every living one of them today.

Therefore, I would argue that a student body of 300 is entirely
appropriate (and the rough number I had arrived at when I read the books).