Now this is something I truly don't get. I can understand the population being small when the Muggle population is small because there woudn't be many muggle borns to swell the ranks. But, with the population explosion in Britain since developments in sanitation and health care, it doesn't make sense that the UK WW is so small.
If the muggle population increases due to improved infant mortality rates, then surely the percentage of muggle borns reaching Hogwarts would increase and with them an influx of muggle ideas to challenge the status quo. I'd've thought that development would be the very thing that started Grindlewald off on his journey to pure blood supremacy.
As for the goblins, why on earth would anyone entrust their wealth to a group of beings they treat less than equal, unless there's some serious protection spells at work that prevents the goblins from spiriting away all those galleons.
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Date: 2009-03-15 08:35 am (UTC)Now this is something I truly don't get. I can understand the population being small when the Muggle population is small because there woudn't be many muggle borns to swell the ranks. But, with the population explosion in Britain since developments in sanitation and health care, it doesn't make sense that the UK WW is so small.
If the muggle population increases due to improved infant mortality rates, then surely the percentage of muggle borns reaching Hogwarts would increase and with them an influx of muggle ideas to challenge the status quo. I'd've thought that development would be the very thing that started Grindlewald off on his journey to pure blood supremacy.
As for the goblins, why on earth would anyone entrust their wealth to a group of beings they treat less than equal, unless there's some serious protection spells at work that prevents the goblins from spiriting away all those galleons.