Wizard talent in Muggle families

[heiditandy]

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From: heiditandy
Subject: Re: Wizard talent in Muggle families
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6979] Re: Wizard talent in Muggle families
Date: 8/16/00 10:21 am  (ET)

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 i think that, when it comes to hogwarts enrollments for muggle families,
 there must be more preparation for muggle parents than we've heard
 about. how would you feel if you recieved a letter on your childs 11th
 birthday saying 'your kid is a wizard/witch, they're coming to
 hogwarts' -
 i dont know about the rest of you but id certainly have my doubts about
 it! perhaps when a magical child is born into a muggle family the
 ministry,
 or mcgonagall, or whoever, sends out a letter saying 'your child is a
 wizard/witch, and will go to this school in the future,' so the
 parents can
 get used the idea. this is entirely possible; perhaps the letter that
 dumbledore left for the dursleys (but which they convieniently ignored)
 is
 a letter of this nature, although in harrys case it would have 'watch
 our for
 lord voldemort' or something at the end.>>

Without making a statement on whether kids from muggle families get this
kind of letter, Remember that in Book 1, Hagrid tells Harry & the dursleys
that Harry's name has been down for Hogwarts since he was born... -
this supports the idea that James & Lily knew that he'd be going there -
plus, Vernon & petunia knew when they looked at the letter exactly what
it was saying - if only Petunia did, then you could believe that she knew
because she'd seen Lily's letter years before, but as Vernon did, you have
to think that Dubledore said at least something about it in his letter.