the Weasley Cousins,

[Len Jaffe]

No: HPFGUIDX 150593

> latoya: 
>  Molly introduces her [ deletio ]
> with more Hogwarts students.
> 
> Catherine now:
>   [ edito sommorro] So either they were killed, or
> moved to other countries and attend other wizarding
> institutions. Or JKR didn't think ahead this far and
> now has to write herself out of this little
> conundrum....

Len:
Perhaps there are more schools in England, but we only
concern ourselves with hogwarts.  The idea of other
wizarding schools is never broached until Gof, so the
idea that the Weasley cousins go to other schools
isn't so far fetched.  

If Hogwarts is Eaton, then surely there's enough
wizard kids to support a Smeltings, and maybe even a
St. Brutus'.  

Then again, we only ever meet three or four new
characters everybody else at the school are just a
bunch of shadows.  So they could be there, but not 
play any role in the parts of Ron's life that get
written about.  Or maybe the rest of the weasley
family shuns the Ottery-St. Catchpole faction.  Maybe
they're sick of looking at the plug collection :-)

Len.