User blog comment:JayeMalik'/Ministry of Magic Employees/@comment-24344137-20170902000247/@comment-26090648-20170904014711

I know it's canon, what I'm saying sounds unrealistic is keeping track of every single child with the potential for magic and keeping tabs on all of them. It's literally downright impossible; it's canon that every year there's an average of 100 first year students, without counting surges and drops throughout the years, so that's be 100 x 11 = too much for me to do mentally. It just doesn't seem realistic that a government stalks over 1k kids and keeps tabs on their magic/their family status annually. Maybe in special cases, sure, like Harry's since he was the Boy Who Lived, but for the rest? Just seems too unrealistic. The Trace isn't officially implemented until they're 11, regardless? But I don't know. This is why we need a discussion for it. :P