[HPforGrownups] Re: The Magic Quill, Hogwarts' Admission and Squibs

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 40884

Elkins wrote  <apres snippage>:

>Hagrid speaks of Harry's name being down for Hogwarts
>since infancy as if this is quite unusual as well. 

There may be a slight cultural issue at play here, since I didn't parse it
as unusual at all.  In a Muggle context, one might have put one's child's
name down for Eton when he was born.  People do.  The infant will still
have to take his entrance exam, of course.

So the wizarding families might well put their children down for Hogwarts
as soon as they can - Muggle-borns and perhaps half-bloods would have to
rely on the magical Quill.

Pen