Muggle and magic worlds

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 24353

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., profusepersiflage at y... wrote:

> To the point - How can witches/wizards get muggle jobs? At least
> for high positions such as a university professor, or even an 
> elementary school teacher, people must have resumes. 

False resumes, backed up with forged documents and wide application 
of Memory Charms and Confundus Charms. 

Paper files in some bureaucrat's file cabinet can have no longer 
wanted records Summoned out and the new, improved records Conjured
in. Computerized databases, I assert, can be affected just as much by 
Memory Charms and Confundus Charms as can people and magical 
artifacts. 

That can also be how the truant officers, National Health, and so on, 
forget the Muggle-born witch's existence while she's at Hogwarts, but 
during summer holiday they remember that she's been on their books 
all year. 

I previously had assumed that Hogwarts took care of this for the 
Muggle-born students, but adult wizarding folk who wanted Muggle 
identities had to take care of all that forgery and fuddlement 
themselves, but someone just suggested that there is a whole 
Department at the MoM that takes care of it, possibly with assistance 
from the Muggle government (presumably in USA it would be like the 
Witness Protection Program).

If Hermione becomes an Oxford professor, she will first finish 
Hogwarts, then go to Oxford as an undergraduate (presumably with 
false high school transcripts and forged A-levels), then as a grad 
student, then earn her PhD, and only THEN become a professor.

> Obviously witches/wizards cannot say that they went to Hogwarts as 
> it does not exist as far as muggles are concerned. So how can they 
> possibly explain their disappearance from the muggle world or prove 
> their residence elsewhere?

They don't need to explain their absence from the Muggle world 
because their (forged) paper trail says they were in the Muggle 
world all the time.