Muggle Parents

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 24841

First and most important, welcome! We're glad you joined.

Degroote:"This  my first posting.  I'm so happy to find this site to 
talk other grown ups about Harry Potter.  Anyone else a 
thirtysomething mom or  dad whose kids are too young to read HP 
themselves?"

How's 51 with a 9 and a 7 who read Harry all the time?

DeGroote:"...anyone wondered about how Hermione's parents feel about 
finding out that their little girl is a witch (something I sometimes 
suspect my 6 y/o of, LOL) and then sending her off to some place 
they've never been and can't go to?"

Consider the shock. Not only has your world and reality been turned 
inside out, but your kid's going there. It'd be a lot like sending 
her off to some other planet, from which she'll never return. Oh, 
she'll return physically, but she (or he) won't be the same anymore.  
And what happens when your child marries one of her wizarding 
schoolmates?  "I'll be lucky to see her twice a year."

The best people to help you through it would be the ones who've gone 
through it already.  It would make sense to have the Muggle parents 
of magical students who are already at Hogwarts (or graduated, even) 
visit the new family and help them deal with it.

Hermione is a fascinating character. She's the one who prepares Harry 
for the trials he faces, his coach.  Have you wondered, as she has, 
why the Sorting Hat didn't put her in Ravenclaw?  That old Hat knows 
what it's doing.