In Harry Potter, how big is the magical community?
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Then there's the rest of the world. We know there are wizards in other countries, with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, and all the international wizards at the Triwizard Tournament. So there must be a significant number of wizards all over the world, but each country only has a small percentage of wizards.
That's my guess, anyway. Jo should address this in her encyclopedia!
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The stadium seats 100,000 people but 100 million magical people seems excessive. If there were that many, the muggles would have noticed as the magical people have trouble dressing up as shown in the Goblet of Fire. They wore some very strange clothing when they were going to the stadium. @philipy's estimate of 0.1% of the population seems more reasonable.
The stadium is larger than the stadiums in UK as a "Ministry task force of 500 worked on it for a year".
I dunno, when you factor in the a approximate population of the Earth, about 6.7 billion, 100 million really isn't that much. The very lowest estimate I'd be willing to go is 50 million magical people. Also the only information we have about wizarding communities is in the UK. There's tons of places in the world where wizards could live without being noticed. For example in remote areas where there's only about one person per square mile. There could be large communities in areas like that that are hidden from muggles.
Good attempt, though it would've helped a lot to check out the number for the stadium capacity like @potterarchy did.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Egypt and learn about their work, but the full impact is incorporated through the Triwizard Tournament. Summarily summing up, the magical community in Harry Potter is as big and widespread as the community that lies outside of Harry Potter, that is, ours. This is what I believe and estimate.
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You'd think the magical population would have to be a relatively small percentage, so that maybe only one in a hundred or one in thousand people are magical.
If only 1%, then the British wizarding community would be about 600,000 people, the size of a pretty large city, whereas if it's only 0.1%, it would be only 60,000 which could be the equivalent of a small town, of a number of small villages.
I guess for the World Cup, visitors would come from all over the world to support their teams.
Interesting that the capacity of the stadium was 100,000. That is actually bigger than the capacity of England's national soccer stadium at Wembley, which is "only" 90,000!
http://www.wembleystadium.com/ask_wembley.htm#ENA
Though for a major soccer tournament, many stadiums are used at once, not just a single stadium, even one the size of Wembley.
True, I didn't even consider - you basically have to double the amount of people trying to buy tickets, to factor in the Bulgarian fans (and the Irish fans, as they're not technically UK). Wow about Wembley, I didn't know that was for 90,000 people. I got to visit San Siro in Milan, which looks to be about the same size. They're pretty huge!