[HPforGrownups] Wizard Orphanages (WAS Hagrid's Personality)

[Sherry Garfio]

No: HPFGUIDX 47791

Shane wrote (after his wonderful treatise of Hagrid)
> There's also 
> the possibility that there are some wizarding orphanages.  The WW must have 
> orphans or children who for one reason or another need to be taken into 
> care.  Is this all dealt with within the community, or is there a wizarding 
> social services?  maybe Hagrid was briefly in an orphanage or with a foster 
> family?

Certainly the VoldeWars would have necessitated some kind of orphan-care
arrangement if there had been none before, although that would have been after
Hagrid's time.  But something else occurred to me in reading this.  Why would
Tom Riddle have been sent back to the *Muggle* orphanage if Hogwarts were
closed?  I seem to recall that he normally spent summers at Hogwarts; is that
right?  In any case, once he was admitted to Hogwarts, why couldn't
arrangements have been made for him to stay in a Wizarding orphanage?  He would
have fit in much better there, and maybe Voldemort never would have existed. 
But then, maybe I've just answered Shane's question: there are no Wizarding
orphanages, or Tom Riddle would have been sent to one over summers; or else
there are now because of all the orphans due to the VoldeWars, but there were
none in Tom Riddle's time and therefore in Hagrid's time.  Any thoughts?

Sherry (who seems to be feeling rather chatty today)


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