Yup. People deciding not to have kids in an unstable political situation will reduce a population *much* more effectively than a small band of maniacs running around and killing people.
And makes a bit of sense that upon arrival at Hogwarts, Harry noticed that "there were an awful lot of muggle-borns".
Yet we don't get an impression that starting around Harry's year 3 the annual intake of new students was suddenly increasing -- which it ought to have, starting right around then. Ginny's year might still be small because of the September 1 cut-off date. The post-war celebration births would have only started showing up around July (she was born in August). Most of the potential "baby" boom would have been in the year following.
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Date: 2014-03-02 08:48 pm (UTC)And makes a bit of sense that upon arrival at Hogwarts, Harry noticed that "there were an awful lot of muggle-borns".
Yet we don't get an impression that starting around Harry's year 3 the annual intake of new students was suddenly increasing -- which it ought to have, starting right around then. Ginny's year might still be small because of the September 1 cut-off date. The post-war celebration births would have only started showing up around July (she was born in August). Most of the potential "baby" boom would have been in the year following.