Student Detector, was Re: Number of Students

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No: HPFGUIDX 79561

> 
> 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.
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> "msbeadsley"

I think that JKR said somewhere (sorry, don't remember where) that 
when a magical child is born, an enchanted quill writes down the 
name of the child in a book of some sort.. and when the kid turns 11 
they get a letter of acceptance to Hogwarts.

-Anna