How do Muggle-born students find Diagon Alley?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 34224

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "tangawarra1" <rachrobins at h...> wrote:
> A question that has been puzzling me for some time...
> 
> How do Muggle-born students (first years) know how to find Diagon 
> Alley to get their hogwarts supplies? Do they perhaps recieve 
> something extra with their letter to explain about the Leaky 
> Cauldron?? I haven't found any clues to this in canon - has anyone 
> else found any information on this? 

I think that Hogwarts has to do something, whether they send extra 
explanatory information or actually send someone to visit the Muggle 
parents.  Otherwise, I'd think that most parents would assume that 
the letter their child received from Hogwarts was some sort of 
elaborate joke.  

It would be nice to get more input from the Grangers on what they 
make of all this magic stuff.  What do they say to their Muggle 
friends about the school their daughter attends?  Sure, they can pass 
it off as a Scottish boarding school, but they'd always have to be on 
their toes to prevent mention of sickles or cauldrons or owl post.

Marianne