[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard Population and Other Schools

[Twileen Janeen]

No: HPFGUIDX 47182

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but
it hasn't seemed to have come up in this particular
thread. But I don't believe that Harry's year is at
all a reliable basis for calculating the number of
students at Hogwarts. After all, in the years prior to
his birth Voldemort was on the rise and the world was
getting scarier by the minute. So it would be natural
for people to be having fewer children every year. The
DEs wouldn't be having many kids either, because as
Hagrid tells us going to the other side makes one
uninterested and uncaring (much like many drugs, I'd
like to add). Each year over Harry's and under Ginny's
would have more students.

My take on early schooling is that children from
wizarding families would have to be home schooled or
go to primary schools specifically for wizarding
children. Obviously they don't normally learn magic,
because we know that kids enter Hogwarts on a pretty
even level of knowlege. There is loads of support for
this opinion. So many pure-blooded children know next
to nothing about muggle society, and don't you think
there would be an awkward moment when the teacher
says, "And what do your mommy and daddy do?" 

As for the UK's wizard population in general I'm of
the opinion that it is really not all that large.
Evidence to the contrary is often easily put to rest.
For example: Diagon Alley is constantly crowded
because it is narrow and difficult for any substantial
amount of people to move about freely. Also, in the
wizarding world, manucturing takes much less man power
as everything is produced using magic. This accounts
for the vast variety of items and services offered
because everyone needs a job, and there aren't really
all that many grunt work jobs available so people have
to come up with new ideas.

Thats my take, anyhow.
-Twileen

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