[HPforGrownups] Wizard popn./Snape/McGonagall

[Christian Stubø]

No: HPFGUIDX 4164

I cannot remember excactly where I heard it first, but
I have this memory impressed in my brain from
somewhere that Rowling said Scotland was treated
separately.  I may be wrong, though.  I find it entire
plausible, though, as Scotland has parts of its
government and, I believe, educational system separate
from the of the rest of Britain.  This is also true
for the authorities charged with administering the use
of heraldry.  Scotland is a separate kingdom, after
all.  I am uncertain about how Ireland would be
treated - that Seamus Finnigan is at Hogwarts suggests
that before Irish independence, at least, all of
Ireland was under Hogwarts, but that may have changed
now.

Out of curiosity, Neil, (based on an exclamation you
used) - do you read Katharine Kerr?

--- Neil Ward <neilward at dircon.co.uk> skrev: >
Christian wrote:
> 
> >>>I assume that Hogwarts trains all wizarding-kind
> in England, Wales and
> Northern Ireland, but not in
> >>>Scotland or the Republic of Ireland (unless
> somebody whack me over the
> head with an explisit statement from
> >>>Dr. Rowling indicating otherwise.)
> 
> Why exclude Scotland?  Scotland is part of Britain,
> and, more to the point,
> the consensus is that Hogwarts is located there. 
> I'm impressed by your
> analysis though, Christian: ye gods, it's almost a
> thesis!  Most people
> doodle while they wait for something, but you
> calculate the wizarding
> population of Britain. I'll leave it to Simon - or
> another Maths whiz - to
> comment on the accuracy of the figures.
> 
> Voicelady said:
> 
> >>>I'm starting to wonder if maybe Snape was in love
> with James, rather than
> Lily - as has already been put >>>forth.  Here is
> Harry, who looks like his
> dad, as a constant reminder to Snape (who really is
> a good guy, >>>if not a
> nice one) that >Harry is the reason that James, the
> man he loved, is now dead.  
> 
> Interesting thought.  His hatred of James may have
> arisen because his
> affections were not returned and he knew they never
> would be.  Incidentally,
> I also like the idea of Snape being a vampire, as
> several people have
> suggested previously.  Someone - Martha I think it
> was - posted some
> evidence for this, and I've just come across another
> telling snippet from
> CoS:  "A bad idea, Professor Lockhart," said Snape,
> gliding over like a
> large and malevolent bat" [during the duelling
> class].  
> 
> Martha said:
> 
> >>>McGonagall was there [on the wall outside Privet
> Drive] because Hagrid
> had told her Dumbledore would be >>>there. I think
> she wanted to hear about
> all the rumors going around straight from D.
> 
> I think she did too, but I have this crazy idea that
> McGonagall wasn't being
> entirely honest in that first scene with Dumbledore.
>  Dumbledore asks her:
> "I suppose it was [Hagrid] who told you I'd be
> here?" and McGonagall says
> "Yes.."  Earlier in the narrative, it says that she
> "seemed" to have got the
> point she was anxious to discuss - the real reason
> she had been sitting on
> the wall all day, but only "seemed".  She does say,
> "Why here of all
> places?" but she could have been covering up the
> fact that she knew exactly
> where it was, and that she was there for another
> reason.  
> 
> This is my off-the-wall half-cocked theory about why
> Minerva was on the wall.  
> 
> Neil
> 
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