International students at Hogwarts

Chapter 7 How Many Wizards Are There in the Magic World?
Lu Ren didn't know what Professor McGonagall was thinking. He was thinking about another question.

So on the way back, Lu Ren took the opportunity to ask Professor McGonagall this question.

Lu Ren was actually very curious, how many people are there in the magic world?

Ms. Rowling once said that there are about 1.8 wizards in the British wizarding world, which is very interesting.This figure is roughly equal to fifty divided by 80%, which is the number of Hogwarts students divided by the British birth rate in the [-]s.

If we assume that the number of new students per level at Hogwarts is the same as the birth rate of the British wizarding world 11 years ago, then it just fits Rowling's statement.

Then why, as the world's number one magic school, there are only about fifty new students each year?Does Hogwarts also engage in elite education like French engineering schools?
The answer can only be that the population of the magic world is too small... This can be corroborated from the original book.

In the first part, there is only one dormitory for Gryffindor first-year boys, and this dormitory has only five beds.Well, even if you travel to the magic world, you can't escape the fate of the six worlds!

According to the description in Chapter 9 of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone": "Slytherin's students are already there, and there are twenty flying broomsticks neatly placed on the ground." So it can be inferred that Gryffindor There are no more than 20 first-year students in the two houses of Slytherin-because Ms. Hooch, who teaches flying lessons, only prepared twenty broomsticks, and she also said "everyone stands next to a broomstick" so There is no sharing of two or more people.

In the second "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", Harry and his Hufflepuff classmates took herbal medicine class, "there are more than twenty pairs of earmuffs of different colors on the stool." Sprout The professor only prepared about twenty earmuffs, so there were no more than thirty Gryffindor and Hufflepuff students.

This is still Hufflepuff, which is famous for its large population.Therefore, in the four colleges, the number of students at each level probably does not exceed 50.We conservatively estimate that there are 50 students in each grade.Then the seventh grade is about 350 people.

This is also more reasonable.After all, there are only a few professors in the school, and there are no such positions as teaching assistants. Instead, there are assistant professors or substitute teachers.The substitute teacher doesn't live in the castle, and is temporarily hired according to the principal's owl letter, which we don't consider.

Every professor has to give students at least one class a week, and some classes even have two class hours a week!Here we make the most simplified treatment. Each professor has to teach one class hour a week to all students in grades one to five, and at the same time give one class hour to students in grades six and seven.

Disregarding special circumstances, both colleges have taught together until the fifth grade.Therefore, a professor has to teach a grade twice a week, simply add up, and a professor has at least twelve class hours a week!
So scary!You know, the classes at Hogwarts are not the small 10-minute classes in China, but the big classes that take a full two hours!There are at most four courses a day, so a professor will teach from morning to evening three days a week... This does not take into account the extra classes and the work of the professors preparing lessons and grading assignments.

This is exploitation!

With this kind of intensive teaching, there are at most 50 people in a class. If there are more than [-] people in a class, the professors can be exhausted to death.Don't forget, liberal arts is fine, but science subjects such as potion classes require professors to prepare experimental materials by themselves!

So estimating 350 students in a school is a bit excessive.There are eleven well-known wizarding schools around the world.And Hogwarts is not a weak teacher in the wizarding world. The principal, Professor McGonagall, defeated Grindelwald by himself, so he can be said to be a faker in the wizarding world.Therefore, it is impossible for the scale of Hogwarts to be much smaller than that of other schools, so the number of students in other schools should also be around 300.Each school counts as 350 students, so the total number of students in the school is 3850, which is less than 500.More than [-] students graduate each year.

According to the old man who appeared in the book, the lifespan of the magic world and the non-magic world is actually similar, only a few special cases can last a long time.This can be inferred from the characters in the book, such as Harry's grandparents, the grandparents of the Weasley family, Sirius' parents, all passed away.Therefore, most of the characters in the magic world live to around 80 years old.

Everyone graduated at the age of 17 and died at the age of 80. There are a total of 63 classes of students, which is about 5000 people.There are only 5000 wizards who have undergone systematic training. Counting some lesser-known elementary schools, the number doubles to only 7...

Of course, there are far fewer countries with magic schools than countries without magic schools, because the wizard population in most countries will choose to learn magic at home, so there is still potential for the magic world to be tapped. Based on the current information, it is basically impossible to infer. The number of people who left the magic world...

Because the data given by Rowling is too nonsense!There are currently only eight known magic schools, namely Beauxbatons in France, Durmstrang in Scandinavia, Hogwarts in England, Kodos Torrez in Russia, and The Institute of Magic, Uganda's Waggadu, Brazil's Castrobushe, America's Ilvermorny...the four ancient civilizations don't have a magic academy?What a joke!
So the best way is to ask Professor McGonagall!
"Professor McGonagall, how many wizards are there in the magic world?" Lu Ren opened his eyes wide and asked Professor McGonagall expectantly.This can be regarded as a long-cherished wish of his previous life - after all, it is very disappointing to see that there is no Chinese school in a famous magic school.What's wrong?Can't the Chinese become magicians?

And in this world, at least Lu Ren can try to let magic take root in the Central Plains.

"Your question is really difficult for me," Professor McGonagall frowned, thinking for a while, "it's about 28. Before the Quidditch World Cup Finals, there were [-] wizards participating, but these were basically European and American wizards. wizards in Asia and Africa are not interested in Quidditch.

The Ministry of Magic has an easy solution.According to research and research, the probability of human awakening magic talent is random and does not change due to nationality—except for historical reasons in the Central Plains, so the number of British magic circles is divided by the British population and the proportion of the total population of Central Plains people in the world That is the number of wizards in the world. "

　I'm going, I checked a lot of information in this chapter, I'm really tired, Rowling has left too many bugs, in her world, China is as if it doesn't exist...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)