W/W born to Muggle Parents

[joym999 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 22678

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Phil Jern" <pjern1 at h...> wrote:

> 
> Imagine being a Muggle parent and having an owl deliver a parchment 
> envelope on your childs' 11th birthday... Hogwart's School of 
WHAT?!?
> 
> Surely there must be a protocol for the school to handle these 
> cases.  Perhaps a "Muggle Liason" office of some kind at the school.
> 
> What do you think?

I have always thought that the Hogwarts teachers must divide up the 
Muggle-born kids and deliver the letters personally to their 
families.  I also suspect that their visits sometimes involve the use 
of a spell like "Accepto Incredulo," which makes muggles happy about 
the fact that their kids are magical (and keeps them from blabbing 
about it to the neighbors).  Unfortunately, in the case of the Evans 
family, the spell was cast on Lilys parents but not on her sister 
Petunia.

I think that each teacher, after the home visits, takes a small group 
of new students on a visit to Diagon Alley, shows them how to get in, 
how to exchange money, tells them about Platform 9 3/4, etc.  Hagrid 
does not usually do home visits; hence he forgot to tell Harry how to 
get onto the Platform.

That is my theory, anyway.  Probably the real answer is simply that 
JKR didnt think of it.

--Joywitch