The Scale of Things

[prefectmarcus]

No: HPFGUIDX 43293

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "CHRISTOPHER NUTTALL" 
<christopher_g_nuttall at h...> wrote:
> But for the Wizarding world to
> be
> so large, the wizards must be at least one percent of the population
> (roughly
> 0.2 million), and Hogwarts does not appear to be large enough to 
cater for
> all
> their children.

> Chris

I once did some quick number extrapulations.  Rowling said there are 
about one thousand students at Hogwarts.  (Yes, yes, the books don't 
tally, but I'm not going there for now.)  There are seven grades so 
that means there about about 150 students per grade.  In today's 
culture, there are about 200 people in the population for every 1 
student in a given year.  Now assuming that wizards live twice as 
long as muggles, make that 400 to 1.  That leaves a grand total of 
60,000 wizards in England.  That is only .3 of one percent or 3 in 
every thousand Britians are wizards.

However you cook the numbers, there aren't very many.  However there 
is enough to be orginized.

Mark