Finding Muggle-Borns

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No: HPFGUIDX 33723

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Jefrigo21 at a... wrote:
> "Sandi Steinberg" <sandirs at h...> Wrote...
> 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?....
> 
> ________
> I heard that there is a magica feather that writes the names down
of 
the child who has magic in them....

The MoM detected Dobby's hover charm in CoS and sent Harry a nasty
owl. So they can detect magic going on.  So, they can detect the
little magical accidents that Muggle-borns sometimes have. I suspect
the MoM spends some resources dredging for Muggle-Born talent.