Where are sqibs schooled?

jferer jferer at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 5 01:02:09 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 42111

Grey Wolf:"There is a third posibility, that was first thought of as a 
way to tie JKR's 1000 students figure with the 300 students figure the 
book gives, but that it's very logical if you think about it for a 
while: distributed campuses. According to this theory, there is only 
one "Hogwarts school", but, to prevent muggles from noticing a magic 
school, it has been divided in a series of campuses that have been 
distributed all over the British Islands."

The books do not, repeat not, give the 300 student figure anywhere. 
Those who propound a higher number can find some support for that, 
just as 300-student supporters find support in canon. (Sounds like 
Biblical debate, doesn't it?)  And there isn't anything to suggest 
there are any other campuses anywhere. On the contrary, JKR has said 
Hogwarts is the only magical school in Britain. I don't think that 
leaves room for a multi-campus school system. It would be a little 
like saying that the University of California [system] is one school. 
We have heard from Hermione how Hogwarts itself is hidden.

To me, the most fascinating thing to do in the Potterverse is to 
figure out how the wizarding world and its society works, and you 
can't do that by just making something up. The place to do that is in 
fic, which, like good science fiction, lets you take out a world and 
experiment with it.

I didn't mean to suggest that there are a lot of squibs in the wizard 
world, just that there are enough that someone pays attention to them. 
Stan Shunpike and Ernie Prang actually do need some magical ability to 
make the Knight Bus run, so they really can't be complete squibs.

I think we're just forced admit there's a lot about wizard society we 
don't know.





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