[HPforGrownups] Hagrid's wand / No Other Wizarding Schools?

[Sasha HP]

No: HPFGUIDX 48012

  Greetings!

> Beth wrote:

BL> Something's been bothering me about the Hagrid and Harry
BL> sequence toward the beginning of PS/SS, and I just
BL> couldn't put my finger on it. I finally got it watching
BL> the movie again...

BL> If it takes a wand to get into Diagon Alley from the
BL> courtyard behind the Leaky Cauldron, why has no one ever
BL> questioned the fact that Hagrid gets through regularly
BL> by himself?

BL> Don't you think SOMEone would have noticed over the
BL> years that he doesn't ask for help getting through the
BL> portal? And I think it's mentioned somewhere in the
BL> books that you have to use a wand to get through. Yes?
BL> (No books with me at work, alas.)

BL> bel

  Well, he was forbidden to use it, not to have it, eh? He
didn't even conceal the fact that he had the remains of it.

  However I got the impression that it was not the wand that
opened the doorway to Diagon Alley, but touching the right
brick in the wall.

  This has however brought me to another thought.

  It is generally accepted that many wizarding children do
not attend Hogwarts and are taught by whoever they live with
or work for. Nice this might seem, but then we should
remember that when Hagrid was expelled, he was forbidden to
do magic at all.

  Hence, if you live in Britain and want to do magic
legally, you MUST attend Hogwarts. There is no other way
around it (surely Hagrid would use it if it existed). Nope,
we must accept the fact that ALL magic children of year 11
come to Hogwarts or some other school OUTSIDE Britain.
Bringing us to the number of 40 children per Britain per
year. And (again) bringing up the question of Wizarding
Reproduction Rate.

  "If we hadn't married Muggles we'd've died out."

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed,
always happy to throw weird ideas into community.

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