[HPforGrownups] Muggleparents and Diagon Alley

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15550

jennifer.k at lycos.com wrote:

> Has there never been one single muggleparent (either married to a
> wizard/witch or just belonging to a mugglefamily given a magical
> child) who when the letter from Hogwarts arriwed when the kid was
> eleven, tried to expose the wizarding world - yelling out about it to
> the entire world? Either just to get noticed/famous, or beacuse of the
> reason Hagrid mentioned in book 1: "Everybody would like to have
> magical sollutions to their problems" (something like it). I do not
> doubt there is people who´d do it in a second, if they had anything to
> gain from it.

The Ministry of Magic clandestinely underwrites several prominent Muggle
publications: the Star, National Enquirer, etc. They make certain that
such mouthy muggles are given prominent coverage in such publications,
which guarantees that the serious Muggle world ignores them.

--Amanda (not canon, but it *should* be...)


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