Hogwarts prep school/Clothing/language/Muggle Interface

[tex23236]

No: HPFGUIDX 38534

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bystardust" <doldra at h...> wrote:

> Maybe at primary school they take all the *regular* classes that
seem 
> to be absent from Hogwarts (math, English, etc.). 

Pre-Hogwarts primary education may have to be arranged by a wiz-kid's
family and there may be many ways of doing it: Maybe Molly
home-schools her kids, The Malfoys brought in a tutor/governess 
for Draco. Some parents may form a coop school.  Some may even 
use a house-elf, except for language.

> I've also always 
> wondered why pureblood children wear muggle clothes. If Ron's never 
> been around non-wizarding people, then why does he dress like them? 
> And why do the children at Hogwarts wear them under their robes? 
> Sorry if this has been brought up before, but I'm new here and it's 
> always bothered me.

The movie notwithstanding, the robes in the book cover everything.
One wouldn't see anything they wore under their robes.
The owl from Hogwarts specifies only the robes, not the jackets 
and ties we saw in the movie. When the kids are out of the robes, 
we do see Muggle clothing  

The Hogwarts kids not only dress like Muggle teens; they talk like
them.  Seems to me there is much more of an interface with the 
Muggle world than JKR needs to show us.  We do know that a 
significant percentage of Muggles do believe in some form of 
ESP/paranormal reality. Some of them may actually deal with the 
WW.  Probably many Wizards make their living from services to 
Muggles, although it is stricly controled by the MoM.

Tex,
who hasn't thought all this all the way through, yet.