[HPforGrownups] Unresolved issues

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 70923

>Sueeeyqbong:
>3)In chapter 1, there are TONS of mentions of all the wizards and
>witches in the streets around Vernon's place of work, all
>celebrating something. (Vernon assumes they're collecting for
>charity...then gets angry because they don't have collecting
>tins...then hears them discussing Harry and the Potters....then  in

I find this a particularly interesting reference as it's the only time we
are shown both wizard and muggle communities side by side to try to assess
what the ratio between the two actually is - strong evidence I feel for a
_large_ WW population if there are so many living in an area of fairly high
muggle density where it's less easy to get privacy to fly around on
broomsticks, throw gnomes over the fence and the like.

I don't find it inconsistent, though. I've always assumed that like many
people in south east England, Vernon has a long commute to work and he sees
the partying wizzes in the places he drives through, rather than in Little
Whinging itself.

>chapter 2, (p.27) the 11 year old Harry reflects on the peculiar
>srangers who often bow/shake hands then disappear. This implies that
>there is a sizeable magic community in Little Whinging...yet there's
>never any other mention of them, and in OoP, I'm sure I remember
>Harry being amazed that there was anyone magic living near him (on
>discovering that Mrs Figg was magic).

The same could be true here. If Little Whinging is a village, then there
would be virtually no facilities there apart from houses so that when Harry
went to school, to the shops, or whatever, he would have had to go to a
nearby town.

My question would be: _why_ aren't there any other wizards living in Little
Whinging?

Maybe they all live in Great Whinging, because it's more prestigious :-)

Cheers

Ffred

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