Muggles at Hogwarts [Reply Wotan]

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Ferer" <jferer at y...> wrote:
> Wotan:"I'm no HPologist - but do we know for *sure* that Hermione's 
> parents are muggles? Maybe they're in deep cover (and who'd suspect 
a 
> dentist!) ... Hermione, for example, seems a natural witch!"
> 
> They're muggles. They're described as such on numerous occasions. 
> Besides, Hermione's muggle-born heritage is important to the themes 
of 
> the books. She, a brilliant student, is looked down on by many as a 
> "mudblood" -- a word with the same emotional punch as some of our 
> racial/ethnic epithets.
> 
> May I humbly plug my own, "The Letter," as a story about how 
> muggle-borns might get introduced to the magic world? It's in the 
> Files section here.  If you choose to read it, I'd appreciate your 
> thoughts.

JKR might want to have a bit of fun with us though! The mudblood 
turns out to have more ancestry than the Malfoys ... Charles Dickens 
is one of her favourite authors.

I'll see if I can find "The Letter".