[HPforGrownups] Wizarding numbers

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 83612

Robert wrote:
>Lets think about the Colonial US.
>Assume, reasonably enough, that no purebloods emigrated.
>A few may have done, but they weren't subject to the
>same pressures as muggles.

There's some confirmation (I think in QTTA) that this was so

>Assume also that native american wizards didn't interact
>much with the colonials.

I think that that's a very big assumption. It's reasonable to assume that
the native wizards would have had their own means of identifying wizard
born, even if they were not at this point living as a separate society from
the native muggles. Therefore, why _shouldn't_ immigrant muggle-borns have
been brought into native wizardry, in the same way that immigrant
muggle-borns in the UK have found their way to Hogwarts.

There's also a very interesting corollary to this and that is that the
political geography of _wizarding_ North America could be very different
from that of _muggle_ North America. Certainly wizard Europe has differences
from muggle Europe (I've noted references to Flanders, Sardinia, and
Transylvania, for example, which aren't independent countries in our world).
So it's quite conceivable that even though the ethnicity of American wizards
is almost certainly (by now) far closer to the ethnicity of American muggles
than when colonisation began, it may well be that when young muggle borns
are inducted into the American WW, they find that the political boundaries
have more closely reflected those of the pre-colonial period.

Cheers

Ffred

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