[HPforGrownups] Re: Contacting parents

[The Fox]

No: HPFGUIDX 55979

From: "maria_kirilenko" <maria_kirilenko at yahoo.com>

>I was talking about contacting the parents of the *Petrified* students, 
>like Hermione or Justin Finch-Fletchley. ... Apparently, Ginny's case is 
>different because everyone believed she was dead or dying in the Chamber of 
>Secrets, and it was impossible to go and save her because no one knew where 
>it was. Of course her parents were contacted.

It was Percy who contacted the Weasley parents, actually (US hardcover, 
p.295).  And this after the Heads of Houses informed their students that 
Ginny had been taken into the chamber; McGonagall, as acting headmistress, 
had put plans in motion to close the school and send the students home by 
Hogwarts Express.  It's not clear what was to be done about the four 
Petrified students in the infirmary -- possibly they'd be sent home by a 
special train after they'd been revived.

Anyway, Percy sent an owl to the Weasleys and they arrived at the school 
that same evening -- likely before McGonagall had a chance to decide *what*, 
much less *how*, to tell them about Ginny.

Fox

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