"We Want to Matriculate Your Daughter..."

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No: HPFGUIDX 33683

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "sing2wine" <bonnie.abrams at c...> wrote:
> Cindy brings up a topic that troubles me as well. Petunia ranted and 
> raved - with great bitterness - about how proud her parents were when 
> Lily got her letter and we all know that Hermione's parents are 
> muggle dentists. How does the cross-over occur for muggle born 
> wizards to be accepted by their parents? How did Hermione's parents 
> get to Diagon Alley to bring her to buy her school supplies? How does 
> all this stay out of poison pens of muggle equivalents of Rita 
> Skeeter? (Or is that what papers like the National Enquirer are 
> really about...???)

Maybe their Owls deliver more infomative letters, but Muggle parents
and guardians have to be informed that: 1)Yes, there is magic, and 2)
your child/ward is a witch/wizard, and 3) hogwarts is the best place 
for them to be, and 4) here is your parents' orientation schedule.

I don't think the Grangers were subjected to the treatment the Dursleys
were but they had to be oriented, especially as they are footing the bill
for Hermione's shool expenses.