Hogsmeade and home towns

[Simon J. Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 2709

Heather wrote: "However from the descriptions of the no. of shops etc I
would give it the status of a large village as opposed to a town and I still
fail to see why it would be populated entirely by adult wizards. Not all of
those shopkeepers can have been either single, childless couples or almost
retirement age so where are the children. . . ."

We only know where a couple of the students are from. I think we know where
Harry, Ron (and the rest of the Weasley's) and Seamus (as descriptive as
Ireland) come from. In a school of 300 (for arguments sake I have picked a
reasonable number) we only know where a couple of people live so it is
entirely possible that some of the students are from Hogsmeade.

Harry does not seem to be very interested in finding out such information
about people and seemingly (from the point of view of people asking Harry
questions) not many others seem to interested either.

Simon