Student Detector, was Re: Number of Students

[msbeadsley]

No: HPFGUIDX 79510

> "fawkes970" <sollecks970 at a...> wrote: I think it's quite simple: 
there are plenty of people in each class, not just a certain number. 
I think that it depends on how many are magically ready for Hogwarts 
at the age of 12...I think there's some sort of detector...fawkes

I thought first year was eleven-year olds.

And I can see one of those arcane devices in Dumbledore's office 
projecting something like a holographic map of the area Hogwarts 
serves, with little twinkly lights representing next year's newbies, 
growing gradually brighter, with an occasional flare as some nine or 
ten year old ><pops>< out of danger onto a school roof or vanishes a 
barrier at the zoo, as the time to mail invitations to the school 
approaches.

Something similar might be found as well in Malfalda Hopkirk's office 
at the Ministry of Magic, alerting her to things like Dobby's hover 
(oh, but maybe it was a *hoover* charm and he was just cleaning) 
charm and Harry's Patronus.

"msbeadsley"