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Exploring:

• Infant mortality in the wizarding world and why there is so little evidence for it
• How wizarding society functions
• Why having a large family is beneficial
• Why wizards/witches may have a very different attitude to family planning

In previous essays, I have explored how infectious disease can create high death rates in wizarding society. This ( Read more... )

A discussion of

• Purely magical diseases
• Ways in which infections can jump from magical creatures to wizards
• How the magical world controls the spread to muggles
• Why the magical world doesn't use modern medical techniques

In the previous essay I discussed how diseases contributes to the high death rate in the wizarding world and how the magical world ( Read more... )

High death rates in pre-industrialised countries reflect a large disease burden. Mostly this disease burden is due to infectious diseases that are endemic and also circulated as frequent, regular epidemics. With modern medical care, developed nations like Britain have managed to cut both the disease burden and death rate from infectious diseases ( Read more... )

Throughout human history the demographics of our societies has changed as we have developed. Today different societies are at different points along this demographic transition. For example developed nations like Japan and the UK, typically have a low birthrate and long life expectancy making children only a small proportion of the population, ( Read more... )

Part Two

( Aberforth's Brother - Part Two )

Reintroduction

Professor Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, deceased, the man behind the plan to rid the wizarding world of Lord Voldemort. This is a study of aspects of him, including something on his family both real and imagined.

( Aberforth’s Brother - Part 1 )

Some thoughts on the old magical families and bloodlines, and where muggleborns come from.

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Let us talk seriously about lineages, genealogies, and heirships.