non-human students -- Where are they?

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No: HPFGUIDX 84576

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kneazelkid" <afleitas at b...> 
wrote:
> Am I tainted by the movie or is Flitwick not a human? If so, he was 
a 
> student at Hogwarts at one point (he's the head of his house) -- so 
> where are the other non-human students at Hogwarts? I know there 
has 
> been guessing about some students being part-something, none of 
them 
> are as outwardly something-else like Flitwick. Thoughts? 
> 
> kneazelkid

Sue B

No, you're not movie-tainted. Flitwick is described as "tiny" many 
times and squeaks in his high voice. But he doesn't *have* to be non-
human. Warwick Davis, who played the role in the film, actually *is* 
that high and he is certainly human, even if the gent has been 
playing everything from an Ewok to Reepicheep the Narnian mouse! :-)
It's my sad opinion that non-humans don't often study at Hogwarts. I 
could be wrong, of course, and missing a reference somewhere. There's 
Hagrid, of course, who is only half-human, but that wasn't well-known 
and think of the fuss that was made when the word got out! 

Or maybe we just aren't told about the young goblins and such who are 
in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, etc.? Somehow I doubt it, though.