wizard family planning

[Tamara]

No: HPFGUIDX 130203

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chancie " <chnc1024 at e...> 
wrote:
> > > Chancie:
> > > > OK, granted this question is coming from WAY out in left 
field,
> > > > but I was wondering, is there any cannon on having babies in 
> > > > the WW? 
> > > 
> >
> > That is a good question. It also brings up the question of 
wizarding 
> > world population. It seems to me that during the time LV was 
really 
> > gaining steam, and doing a lot of the killings, there were less 
kids 
> > being born in the wizard world. Harry's class and the years 
before him 
> > at Hogwarts seem smaller than they would normally be.
> >
> > Tamara
> >
> ********************************
> 
> Chancie:
> 
> I would seem to me, that you probably are right about people in the 
WW
> being less likely to have children during a time of such chaos.  
It's not 
> exactly an environment you would want a helpless child to be part 
of, or 
> one that would really put you "in the mood".  And too perhaps that 
could
> help answer JKR's answer to how many student's attend Hogwarts.  
Maybe
> Voldy did actually manage to lessen the amount of births in the 
WW.  
> 

Harry's year has 31 pupils in it from what I can tell. Of those 15 
are wizard born, I think. 

Harry's Class:

Boot, Terry 
Brocklehurst, Mandy 
Corner, Michael 
Goldstein, Anthony 
Li, Su 
McDougal, Morag 
Patil, Padma 
Turpin, Lisa 

Brown, Lavender 
Finnigan, Seamus 
Granger, Hermione 
Longbottom, Neville 
Patil, Parvati 
Potter, Harry 
Thomas, Dean 
Weasley, Ron 

Abbott, Hannah  
Bones, Susan 
Finch-Fletchley, Justin 
Hopkins, Wayne 
Jones, Megan 
Macmillan, Ernie 

Bulstrode, Millicent 
Crabbe, Vincent 
Davis, Tracey 
Goyle, Gregory 
Greengrass, Daphne 
Malfoy, Draco  
Nott, Theodore 
Parkinson, Pansy 
Zabini, Blaise 

Tamara