Thank you for the clarification. I got to think a bit about the transportation modes used in HP, and found them inconsistent. They use a train to go to Howarts, have this nightbus system, while also having teleportation. It seemed a bit inconsistent, but I probably over thought it.
No, you’re right. Partly this is due to the fact that the multiple methods were invented over a several-year period as the books were being written, but consider: Hogsmeade is within walking distance of Hogwarts. It is a wizarding village- people live there. We are given every indication that the Hogwarts Express is mandatory for all students. So kids who live in Hogsmeade have to travel all the way to London and spend most of a day on a train to get back to where they started from.
What happens when one of the shopkeepers has a kid, they move away? Anyway, it’s the only all-wizarding village on the island. You can wear robes and cast magic in the streets. Either the property values are through the roof, or… I don’t know or. It’s pretty much gotta be highly desirable real estate.
The rich (Malfoys, Blacks) have manors out in the country or in a big city; the poor (Weasleys, Gaunts) have shacks held together by magic on the outskirts of small muggle towns. The middle class has to live somewhere.
Maybe Hogsmeade kids are too poor to afford to go to Howgarts.
In canon, nobody is too poor to attend Hogwarts. When Riddle (Voldemort) is offered admission to Hogwarts, he tells Dumbledore that he has no money:
“That is easily remedied,” said Dumbledore, drawing a leather money-pouch from his pocket. “There is a fund at Hogwarts for those who require assistance to buy books and robes. You might have to buy some of your spellbooks and so on secondhand, but —” (274).
There’s no mention of tuition, so I’m guessing that’s free.
Thank you for the clarification. I got to think a bit about the transportation modes used in HP, and found them inconsistent. They use a train to go to Howarts, have this nightbus system, while also having teleportation. It seemed a bit inconsistent, but I probably over thought it.
No, you’re right. Partly this is due to the fact that the multiple methods were invented over a several-year period as the books were being written, but consider: Hogsmeade is within walking distance of Hogwarts. It is a wizarding village- people live there. We are given every indication that the Hogwarts Express is mandatory for all students. So kids who live in Hogsmeade have to travel all the way to London and spend most of a day on a train to get back to where they started from.
Seems to be just a ritual.
Do any kids live in Hogsmeade? I don’t recall it ever being mentioned. Maybe Hogsmeade kids are too poor to afford to go to Howgarts.
What happens when one of the shopkeepers has a kid, they move away? Anyway, it’s the only all-wizarding village on the island. You can wear robes and cast magic in the streets. Either the property values are through the roof, or… I don’t know or. It’s pretty much gotta be highly desirable real estate.
The rich (Malfoys, Blacks) have manors out in the country or in a big city; the poor (Weasleys, Gaunts) have shacks held together by magic on the outskirts of small muggle towns. The middle class has to live somewhere.
In canon, nobody is too poor to attend Hogwarts. When Riddle (Voldemort) is offered admission to Hogwarts, he tells Dumbledore that he has no money:
There’s no mention of tuition, so I’m guessing that’s free.
thanks! I guess that just leaves us with the theory that there were no Hogsmeade kids in Harry’s interaction circle in the books?