website SPOILERS . Who goes to Hogwarts

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hp_lexicon" <steve at h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> The Lexicon

imamommy:

So, why do we all question Stan Shunpike's Hogwarts attendence?  Is 
it just because he speaks in a less genteel manner than the Hogwarts 
students we are used to dealing with and has what we would consider a 
service industry job?

I recently moved back to my home town after living in various other 
places for seven years.  A few years ago, I saw a kid I used to go to 
high school with working as a stocker at WalMart.  A few weeks ago I 
was at WalMart, and I saw him again, apparently still in the same 
job.  This boy went to the same school I did, actually the same 
community college as well, and yet this is his career path.  

So maybe Stan Shunpike did go to Hogwarts, and the Knight Bus is just 
all the further he got.  After all, what kind of career lies in store 
for Crabbe and Goyle?  And what if Stan did go to Hogwarts, but 
dropped out like Gred and Forge, only with not so stellar a 
contingency plan?  In th US, plenty of students drop out of high 
school after they turn sixteen.  Perhaps there is sex at Hogwarts, 
and Stan got some poor girl pregnant, and dropped out to support 
her.  

imamommy
twitching with discomfort at the thought of Stan Shunpike and sex.