Hogsmeade

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 2747

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Heather Edmonds" <Heather at h...> 
> wrote:
> > > Hermione says in PoA (Chapter5): "Hogsmeade is the only entirely
> > non-Muggle settlement in Britain."
> > >
> > > This does not indicate it to be at all large. I think it is 
there 
> to serve
> > > the school (or at least the staff and students who want to get 
out
> > > occasionally).
> > 
> > Point taken. 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 > 
But back to Hogsmeade.  There's no reason at all that there aren't 
> families there, with children, who need to be educated.  The answer 
> just might be this: this series is about Harry's life, not about 
> wizard society, and JKR has to condense a year of Harry's life into 
a 
> few hundred pages.  She has to leave out more than she puts in. 
IOW, 
> there might well be students from Hogsmeade and we just don't hear 
> about it. It's not a critical detail.



I think this is absolutely right. We don't hear about other 
Wizard/Witch academies until the Goblet of Fire when we hear about
Beauxbatons, Sturmdrang. I think there ARE other educational 
opportunities for wizards/witches and that only some U.K. 
wizard/witches get sent
to Hogswart. Others go to community colleges, rather than the 
university. Or they go to Muggle schools to learn Muggle stuff, and 
take courses about magic on the side.

Who knows? this may or may not be something JKR decides to write about

Susan