[HPforGrownups] Re: Keeping up appearances [Reply SML]

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 13043

LOL, as soon as I saw the title, Mrs Bucket popped into my mind...

Jim Ferer quoth:

> To me this is a huge question. How do the muggle-borns handle it?
> Talk about living a lie! Russian spies have it easier.  Like spies,
> muggle-born wizards need a "legend" to explain themselves in the non-
> magical world, and I can visualize one of the larger Ministry of
> Magic departments [is there any end to them?] devoted to this. Not
> everbody might approve of the story they're provided "What do you
> mean, I dropped out of school and lived in a commune for seven years,
> and now I make beads to sell on the street?"

I'm sure that there's a huge deception campaign going on -- an entire
apparatus devoted to making Hogwarts into some nice boarding school in
Scotland.

> Speaking of that, how did they persuade Hermione's parents to let her
> go in the first place?
> 
> "Did you see the post, dear? Hermione's been accepted at a school for
> witchcraft!" 
> 
> "Oh, jolly good, dear! I suppose she'll have to go live in this,
> what's the word, coven? Well, we'll just have to let her nip off to
> the store to get the supplies on this list."

Gee, guess who doesn't watch Buffy. Doncha know that parents never weird out
when they find out their child is a Slayer/witch/wizard/demon? </smartarse>

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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