What is the population of the wizarding UK and how many are in each graduating class from school?https://twitter.com/QuinnCurio/status/1326545141939630083 …
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I sympathize with people who have detailed, persnickety questions, which can be delightful. But those aren't enraging, and no one ever really expected the Potterverse to be persnickety. But I'm on "how many people are there" and I'm not sure it's answered within a factor of 50.
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The minimalist position is that the named characters and the named school give you an (approximately) accurate sense of the size of things, with maybe a couple unnamed girls in Gryffindor '98 and a half dozen unnamed Ravenclaws, but around 40 wizards born per year overall.
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The maximalist position is that the story is told Star Wars-style, where the universe is theoretically huge but the same minor characters are kind of "chosen" by fate to show up over and over again as representatives of a much greater demographic in the storytelling.
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Neither position holds up entirely. The Quidditch World Cup is too large and the Ministry is too large for the minimalist position. But the maximalist position may be worse: not clear there's a single other Herbology teacher in the whole UK besides Pomona Sprout.
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Thank you to those who mentioned this compromise solution, which has some merit. But ultimately it can only stretch the world so far. Many details at Hogwarts (one teacher per subject) support tiny class sizes, and there's no indication this is unusual. https://twitter.com/ScottElliotG/status/1326619347280912387 …
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Yes. The smallish size of Hogwarts is intrinsic to its character. Maybe it's 40 kids per class, maybe it's 90, but it's not like a big university where you pass by strangers on your way to class. It evokes an elite boarding school aesthetic.https://twitter.com/EMoran16/status/1326625318573137921 …
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Supertalls are good 🥑 🌐 🔰 ⚓️ @ESupertallsReplying to @AlanMColeI would also point out the small size of British boarding schools Hogwarts is based on, often a few hundred total students. This added to the single professor per subject really favors the idea that Hogwarts can’t top 500 or so students.2 replies 0 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
One patch for this is to say "indeed! Hogwarts is the top-ranked British school for cool Important Characters, but there are other unimportant schools." This headcanon actually fixes a ton of problems. Its only problem, really, is complete lack of support in the text.
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Examples: if there are other wizarding schools, then apparent Weasley poverty makes more sense. They are poor only by elite-school standards. Also, the dramatic assertion "Charlie could've played Quidditch for England" becomes actually impressive.
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Actually, let's just address Quidditch more generally. There are fourteen professional teams. That *strongly* supports a huge wizarding world. Are all of these players getting drafted out of Hogwarts house teams?
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14 professional teams with 4 house teams is bizarre. It implies that it's actually easier to play professional quidditch than to get on a house team unless the careers of the players are usually many decades long.
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