OOP: Ratio of Mugs to Wiz was MWPP (Was Flints?) + birthrate

[katiecannon2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 63257

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Muridae <muridae at m...> wrote:
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> psychic_serpent wrote:
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> Something else that occurs to me... What if MWPP were not only all 
in 
> the same house, but that in *their* year they were the only four 
> Gryffindor boys? There are only five of them in Harry's year, after 
all, 
> and those nocturnal activities might be part of the explanation for 
> Peter's inclusion as part of the group.
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> Muridae

And "hermiawoods" said:
>Well, I think it's more that we don't often see any context where 
>there would be children, since most of the time the kids are at 
>Hogwarts, where everyone is 11 and up. At the World Cup in GoF there 
>is mention of young wizards -- a girl with a toy broom, a boy 
>enlarging a slug... 
>So I think it's more that we just dont have many characters at a 
>childbreaing point in their lives. Yet. (Yes, I noticed Bill and 
>Fleur.)

This intrigues me: how can there be soo many wizards.  Think of GoF 
where all of those Wizards/Witches were at the match. And we learned 
that there were other Wizardy Schools: Durmstrung, Beaux-Buttons 
(please forgive horrid spelling) and Hogwarts.

And I've read the VFAF about the number of students at Hogwarts.  It 
doesn't add up *unless* (as I've always assumed) there were other 
students in each hall that just aren't mentioned.  

This also ties into the question (sorry, a gazillion bleary-eyed 
posts ago) about why there isn't a maternity ward.

How many Magical Ones are there to Muggles??  I believe that there 
have to be other kids at Hogwarts that are "unimportant" and 
therefore not mentioned.  I could be wrong--is there canon that there 
were only 5 Griffyndor boys, including HP?