How to muggle-borns find Diagon Alley/the Grangers

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 34246

Ffi writes: 


> Another thought on this Rachel - is how do Muggles themselves get 
> into Diagon Alley?  I mean, The Grangers were there, with Hermione.  
> so is ar Muggles able to enter the magical world, as long as they are 
> with a witch/wizard?  Does the wizard's ability to e.g see the leaky 
> Cauldron mean that muggles can follow them right in, even though, 
> you'd assume they couldn't see it themselves [muggles eyes slide from 
> the music store on one side to the clothes store on the other...]

I was about to say that maybe a witch/wizard comes after they send their 
reply saying they got their letters (like Harry had to in SS/PS), but then I 
thought "Where do muggles get the owls to send their replies?"  So I haven't 
exactly gotten to far into that theory. 

Ffi still: 


> I agree with someone who replied to you - it would be interesting to 
> meet the Grangers - what do they think of their very clever daughter, 
> who i assume they'd have watned to have a very academic career/great 
> job?  

I imagine they were supportive. I'm sure they weren't like: "Forget all the 
plans we had for your future, Hermione! We have a witch in the family! Whoo!" 
nor did they probably act like this: "Well, if that's what you really want. 
So what if it ruins your entire future, blah-blah-blah guilt trip 
blah-blah-blah." 

But whatever they felt, it's obvious that they indulged their daughter. They 
did, after all, buy Hermione all those books that weren't on her Hogwarts 
list, not to mention the extra books and supplies for her third year. I 
wonder if the Granger's got worried when Hermione was buying all these books 
for her third year. Did they ever find out about the time-turner? Or wonder 
why their daughter was so stressed out? (I don't have my copy of PoA, did 
Hermione go home for any of the hollidays?) 

~Cassie~ 


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