(#) DrT 2014-07-30
goku--sorry, but stand by my numbers. Despite some living well past 100, the average life seems under that. Even using your ideas, the numbers don't go past 10,000 if the vast majority of students attend Hogwarts in the numbers shown in the books, even accounting for the war depressed classes. Even with magicals not needing to buy as much as Muggles, the economy and government shown need higher numbers than that, and unless the average Quidditch player has a career of over 30 or 40 years, there wouldn't be enough Hogwarts players to fill the league.