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石來民 Lutheran. Husband. Dad. Kentuckian. Demographer. @DemographicNTEL @FamStudies @AEI @NovakFellows . lymanrstone at gmail dot com

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    1. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

      Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 Retweeted Alan Cole

      I was asked this question a while back. My answer was that in fact the wizarding world has extremely low educational attainment and is riven by poverty. Numerous wizarding children die in childhood as well.https://twitter.com/AlanMCole/status/1326557746339176451 …

      Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 added,

      Alan ColeVerified account @AlanMCole
      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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    2. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

      So the number of wizards is rather large, but very few receive formal education in wizardry, hence why a small precocious band of wizarding students can make such extraordinary gains in wizarding knowledge.

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    3. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

      This also fits with what we observe of wizarding world social stratifications: massive wealth inequality, deeply entrenched class and racial/ethnic differences, etc. We know as well many wizards and witches adopt hermit-style lives.

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    4. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

      The observed completed fertility rate of wizarding women in the books appears similar to British women generally, perhaps a bit higher, so wizarding women evidently use contraception.

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    5. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

      But nonetheless I think the answer is that the wizarding world has a rather large population, but extremely few of those people actually have any specialized training or education in wizardry. Just some folk magic or magic relevant to their trade.

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      Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

      Very few of the Diagon Alley shopkeepers for example are like, "Ah, I remember my days at Hogwarts!" Key to understand that the Voldemort Crisis is a crisis *within the aristocracy*, who are an educational aristocracy as much as anything.

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        2. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Note as well that we hear tell of other wizarding schools in other countries which despite having MUCH smaller populations than Hogwarts appear to be comparably sized schools: school size is weakly related to wizarding population size.

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        3. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Rather, the wizarding schools are similarly sized in order to produce a suitable scale of elite world, quite possibly with the scale driven by the scale necessary for non-incestuous reproduction given the taboos and network sizes we observe.

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        4. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 Retweeted Steve Nadel

          Good question! The Weasleys only recently managed to break into the aristocracy, probably in the paternal generation, and are struggling to remain there.https://twitter.com/StevenNadel/status/1326624313999560705 …

          Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 added,

          Steve Nadel @StevenNadel
          Replying to @lymanstoneky
          They why did the Weasleys send 7 kids to Eton, I mean Hogwarts, when basically all their backstory is that they're poor?
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        5. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 Retweeted David H. Montgomery

          I suspect there is a money issue for many families, and the Weasleys are just scraping by. Papa Weasley's salary is probably better than he lets on, but fecundity eats it all up.https://twitter.com/dhmontgomery/status/1326624881669124096 …

          Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 added,

          David H. MontgomeryVerified account @dhmontgomery
          Replying to @dhmontgomery @lymanstoneky
          In a scenario where British wizarding children have a choice to not attend school & many choose not to, you have to think that many of the less competent students described in the book wouldn’t have gone. (And it can’t have been a money issue, given that the Weasleys all attend.)
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        6. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          More to the point, what we see is not that Hogwarts creates so much knowledge per se, but that it *generates elites*. That is also about connections. And the House system creates very distinct elite identities and strong inter-elite loyalties!

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        7. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          It's also important to understand the racial differences in the wizarding world. Gnomes run the banking system: they don't go to Hogwarts. Many non-human species simply exist under uncontested human overlordship.

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        8. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Dobby's "liberation" is not equality: House Elves aren't about to be made ministry officials or something. Dobby is still a subject in a discriminatory and unfair system.

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        9. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          I mean not literally, of course. Dobby is dead. But you get the point.

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        10. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 Retweeted Julia Hanson

          Sorry, got my creatures mixed up. They are indeed goblins not gnomes!https://twitter.com/julesverne1492/status/1326627578078244866 …

          Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬 added,

          Julia Hanson @julesverne1492
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          Erm, they’re goblins. Gnomes play in the gardens and drive Crooshanks and Mrs. Weasley crazy.
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        11. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Anyways. When we understand that the world the "good guys" are fighting for is still one with an extremely narrow race-defined aristocracy ruling a deeply aristocratic system, I think it impacts our assessment of their goodness.

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        12. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Voldemort obviously is bad because he does bad things. But the cause he is fighting for, while worse than the cause he opposes, is.... like.... a little bit worse?

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        13. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Voldemort thinks that the vaguely totalitarian government which freely uses torture to get its way and which is wildly unequal and provides few or no basic services should have an aristocracy of blood. The goodguys think it should be friends of Dumbledore.

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        14. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          We ultimately must oppose Voldemort because he does deeply evil things in service to his cause. But the "goodguys" here are in fact defenders of an awful system which people of conscience should probably oppose.

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        15. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Also, that this entire dynamic is actually a thinly veiled analogy for actual politics in our "meritocratic" age should be obvious.

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        16. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          In fact, Rowling is engaged in an allegorical defense of upper-crust incrementalist liberalism: preoccupation with meritocracy, blithely ignoring deep, systemic inequalities, etc

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        17. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Hermione's later-in-life attempts to free the House Elves are funny and quixotic because, of course, the House Elves do not wish to be free. In Rowlings world, the subject people know their place, and the meritocratic masters, having purged the last OVERT aristocrats...

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        18. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Reign supreme, having legitimated their rise to power through struggle. But nowhere do you see any interest in *systemic* justice for the downtrodden of the wizarding world.

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        19. Lyman Stone 石來民  🦬 🦬 🦬‏ @lymanstoneky 11 Nov 2020

          Hagrid gets to return to his happy subalternity. But there is no sense that giantkind, let alone halfgiants, are going to benefit from his performing an admirable job as the childrens' token minority friend.

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