Wizard demographics?

[Manda1999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25544

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catherine Keegan <keegan at m...> wrote:
> At 02:59 PM 9/4/01 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Elbereth <elbereth at d...> wrote:
> > > frantyck at y... wrote:
> > > >You know, the idea of a wizarding school in New York City 
sounds
> > > >great. Probably wouldn't surprise New Yorkers much. A great big
> > > >warehouse (tall enough for Quidditch) or a large, nondescript
> > > >building with no visible entrance...
> > > >
> >It could be that North Am. is home to many small schools.    It 
would
> >still give us Americans all kinds of possibilites with the smaller
> >schools (surfer wizards in Santa Cruz, CA!  "traditionalist" 
witches
> >in Salem, MA!)  Just a thought.
> 

This is my first post since I've just joined and spent the past 
couple of days just reading, but I think we've already seen one 
American school. In GoF when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are going for 
water at the campground, it says they saw a bunch of American witches 
under a sign that said Salem Witches' Institute.