lol That's a bold claim, given that JKR is famously still building the sandpit "One school for the entirety of North America, LOL" In order to tell coherent sandcastles in her sandpit, you're forced to build around her arbitrary crap
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And? Her sandpit isn’t finite - that’s the joy of being the author. You do realise that the whole of North America isn’t wizards. It’s a tiny minority from people aged 11-17. People love to say it’s crazy that it’s only 1 school but due to the tiny minority of people who are...
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @Hi_Mike_Gorrie and
...actually magic, and the small age group, it’s probably manageable. Ilvermorny would be a BIG school, but it’s not inconceivable.
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I can't find it right now but people have done the math based on the percentage of Britain's population that's implied to be at Hogwarts at any given time and Uh It's not pretty, dude
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No, 1% is a massive overestimate for the prevalence of wizards in the population, it's more like 0.00005% There's like 300 students at Hogwarts and 3,000 wizards in the whole UK, it's like the population of a small town
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hi_Mike_Gorrie and
While this does make Ilvermorny etc. less ridiculous, it does raise all these massive other questions about how there can be a "wizarding world" with its own culture and economy etc. at all
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Yeah I do see what you mean, it’s a smallish community but I think the unanimity in that they’ve all had the same experience of going through the same school, brings a sense of unity to the community and allows things like currency and the economy to function
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Lol I don't mean how do they all get along without fighting, I mean the exact opposite of that They're not a "country" at all, they're a tiny subculture, there's fewer wizards in the UK than there are furries
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I wasn’t meaning disputes in the community, but the fact that they’re such a small group means everything is very centralised which is a good thing and a bad thing
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It makes it make no sense that there are as many different businesses and shit as we hear about
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Although many will just go and work at the Ministry, there is still a big market for shops and businesses which is where several wizards go to, as independent shops but London really is the hub - there isn’t a smaller Diagon Alley in every town. It’s centralised.
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Replying to @archhufflepuff @arthur_affect and
But the fact that it’s so centralised owes to the fact that it is so small, as you say, that’s why it’s all in one place
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