website SPOILERS . Who goes to Hogwarts

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No: HPFGUIDX 119671


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> 
> I did not see anybody commenting on this piece of info on JKR 
website 
> yet. 

What I immediately noticed is that she only half-way answered the 
question. So did Stan Shunpike go to Hogwarts? How common is it for 
people NOT to go? All this tells us is that the invitation goes out. 
What percentage of people say yes? If almost everyone says yes, then 
the total number of school age Wizarding children in Britain is 
frightfully small -- at most a thousand, as per Jo's comment. That's 
the size of a small high school in the United States, and most 
communities have a number of such high schools. 

If, on the other hand, most families turn down the position in favor 
of having the kids go into a trade, then the Wizarding World is a 
bit more reasonable size. 

I should have rephrased the question...and I spent a month writing 
those questions, hoping to avoid this sort of thing!

Steve
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