Wizard demographics?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Manda1999 at a... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catherine Keegan <keegan at m...> wrote:
> > At 02:59 PM 9/4/01 +0000, you wrote:
> > >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.

Well spotted, Manda!  Looks like my traditionalists are out and 
about!  But I wonder if it's a school, or a professional 
organization?  

And there was a prior post on this thread asking about small schools 
along the eastern seaboard of the US.  Oh, there are tons of tiny 
prep schools tucked away - those of the "if you have to ask, you 
can't afford 'em" persuasion.  Could very well be that one of those 
schools is really masking a school for witchcraft & wizardry.  
Hmmm....