listen. i know jk rowling knows absolutely nothing about america but for the entire country to only have a single wizarding school there must be either 200 professors working at this place or you get to your first potions class and it’s held in a fucking baseball stadium.
SO A FRIEND AND I ACTUALLY JUST DID THE MATH ON THIS.
Between 1972-1979 there were 5,802,282 live births in the United Kingdom. These live births account for the roughly 600 Hogwarts students during Harry’s first year, and would make the birth rate of Wizards approximately 0.01% of the population.
The population of the United States in 2014 was 318.9 million –
23.1% of which were children 0-17. That would mean there were 73,665,900 children in 2014. Checking live births from a time period of 1997-2003 (which would account for children aged 11-17) gives us 27,978,287 children. If 0.01% of them were magical, we’re left with 27,978 school age magical children in the United States in 2014.
If we wanted school sizes similar to Hogwarts – 600 children to a school – we would need at minimum 47 magical schools. If we wanted it more comparable to our own schooling – with an average student body size of roughly 1,430 students combined between middle school and high school during the 2009-2010 school years – we’re down to a minimum of 20 magical schools.
So, long story short. It is statistically impossible for there to be a single magical school in the United States.
It’s far more likely there is at least one school in each state, possibly more than one in much larger states like Alaska, Texas, and California while a single school could feasibly serve the clustered smaller states like Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
book one harry: *loses 2 house points* oh my god they’re all going to hate me this is the biggest atrocity i have ever committed in my academic career, i have forever tarnished the reputation of gryffindor house
book six harry: *loses 70 points for gryffindor* * almost gets expelled* ask me if i give a motherfuck??
I’ve been listening to Cursed Child audiobook recently and!! Scorpius and Albus’s relationship is so wholesome and pure!!! I couldn’t help myself and drew all the times they hugged !
Does anyone ever think about how Hagrid is older than McGonagall? Like Hagrid probably would’ve been directing her and the other first years to the boats and being amused by watching this little girl slowly turning into the sternest and most badass professor ever. I wonder if she would visit his hut. I wonder if she tried to reason with him about dealing with the animals of the forest. I wonder if she ended up in detention with him as her supervisor after breaking the nose of the Slytherin who fouled her in the Quidditch final of her seventh year. I am so here for this.
What Harry found most unusual about life at Ron’s, however, wasn’t the talking mirror or the clanking ghoul; it was the fact that everybody there seemed to like him
This is legitimately the saddest sentence because Harry is so surprised by this like
They like him. He’s never had anyone like him before. He doesn’t know how to handle it. The fact that people like him in the place where he lives literally blows his mind.
I just imagine Harry coming downstairs in the morning and all the weasleys being like ‘hey want some toast’ and Harry just stands there for ages because no one has ever said hello to him when he came down to breakfast before and if that isn’t just the saddest thing
my biggest issue about the harry potter epilogue is that these people, these characters, were children in a war and they watched people die in front of them and die for them. they tried to kill; they tortured. some scars don’t fade – surely that’s the point of harry’s still being there, to remind us and the wizarding world of what he (and they all) went through
you mean to tell me that these kids come out from that war fine? no trauma, no mental health issues like anxiety or ptsd. nothing to do with how they struggled to unlearn constant vigilance or if they still sleep with their wands under their pillows. if molly weasley still watches the clock when arthur is late home, jst in case. if harry doesn’t treat every headache as a sign that voldemort is somehow back. how harry worried about bringing up his children when he has not much of a concept of how to raise a child, other than what not to do? how george copes with the loss of fred, with seeing that ghost in the mirror?
i wonder if draco can look at necklaces on pretty girls in the same way. if pansy parkinson was vilified in the press; they’re fickle, so she probably was. what happened to sirius’s old house? does harry still have hedwig’s empty cage? does ginny ever wake up from a dream and find herself stood by the sink in their bathroom, hissing to the taps?
a scene that really bothers me in HBP is when Ginny feeds Harry that pie thing and she is like “don’t you trust me?” and then just feeds it to him all nicely
because I honestly believe that book!Ginny would have said “don’t you trust me?” and then she would proceed to shove the pie in his face and then say “your mistake!” and just like run away laughing her head off and Harry would just be sitting there with pie stuck to his face and a small grin thinking ‘wow this girl is perfect’
danradcilffe I realize that Gryffindor’s sword being in the lake is supposed to bring up memories of King Arthur or w/e, but all I can think of is Monty Python
actual conversation between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin:
Gryffindor: I am your king. Slytherin: Well, I didn’t vote for you. Gryffindor: You don’t vote for kings. Slytherin: Well how’d you become king then? Gryffindor: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Godric, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king. Slytherin: Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government.
Cheloneuniverse 