[HPforGrownups] : Re: Wizard-Muggle marriage

[Sandi Steinberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 33686

MY big question has always been:  how are Muggle-borns chosen to attend 
Hogwarts?  Is there someone in their ancestry lost to family history who 
actually WAS a witch or Wizard?

Hogwarts certainly has a majority of students who are like the Weasleys and 
Draco Malfoy, the progeny of wizardly families.  Does anyone NOT get invited 
to Hogwars if Daddy or Mummy works for the Ministry of Magic?

It might be fun to look into the "admissions committee"  and learn a bit 
about the selection process.

Let's also remember the violence against witches and suspected witches 
throughout English history.  The Elizabethan Age produced Shakespeare and 
Johnson, but was also the "great" era of witch trials and burnings.
Many of the victims were simply old, deformed women--with what we know today 
about osteoporosis, it's not surprising that many women entered "old" age 
badly stooped and deformed.

We also know that witch burnings were avidly attended and violent 
spectacles....it's not surprising then, that many families might have hidden 
the fact that there was a witch or suspected witch in the family to keep 
their progeny safe and unchallenged in the future.

Sandi


>From: "sing2wine" <bonnie.abrams at cwine.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] :  Re: Wizard-Muggle marriage
>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:52:32 -0000
>
>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...???)
>Bonnie / sing2wine
>
>




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