Thoughts on Muggles with Wizards

[midgiecat at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42419

Arthur Weasley  must have had more than a few friends at Hogwarts that were 
either muggle born or half-muggle half-wizard, right?  After all, that's the 
composition at hogwarts now (in the time period for all four books).   So, if 
he wants to know how muggle things work, for his job at the MOM, he could 
just contact all his old schoolmates, instead of running into things one by 
one as he meets a muggle.  I wondered why he doesn't?    

I also have a thought or two about muggles/magic folk.  How does a child 
become a witch or wizard with two muggle parents, like Hermione [and Lily], 
unless somewhere way back in their ancestry someone was married to a witch or 
wizard and it turns up in a later generation, like a recessive gene.   [This 
means, dear Petunia, that you also have this gene in your blood, too.]  We do 
know that wizards and witches do marry muggles because of the many instances 
of  "mixed marriages" as voiced by Hogwarts students during CoS.   So one 
would guess that either these couples met at a place where they would not 
normally have  known each other, such as Hogwarts, or, magic and non magic 
folk do "hang out" together sometimes.  How do they get together, if they 
haven't attended a school of wizardry together.  

Also, regarding a mention about Arthur Weasley while at Hogwarts, I think he 
was probably there with Lucius Malfoy because Lucius is always making 
comments on how slowly Arthur is climbing up the ladder of success at the 
MOM.  Something one would say to a schoolmate of whom greater things were 
expected (if not by Malfoy- at least by the rest of the school). 

Brenda Wendelken

(sorry that first post was unsigned). 



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