[HPforGrownups] Letting People Know About Sirius/Pettigrew (Was: Re: Contacting parents)

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 55983

 
Phyllis -
On the other issue of whether or not Dumbledore informed the parents 
of the petrified students in CoS - I would think he would have had 
to, since students like Draco Malfoy were telling their parents, and 
since Lucius was spear-heading the campaign to oust Dumbledore by 
having all of the Hogwarts governors sign an order of suspension.  I 
can't see all of the Hogwarts governors and the parents of other 
Hogwarts students knowing while the parents of the petrified students 
remained uninformed.
 
Now me -

Why not? The news is spreading by word of mouth - and possibly through the
Daily Prophet (I don't remember). But the petrified kids are all muggleborns
so their parents aren't going to be associating with the parents of the
other kids so tey won't hear that way, the children themselves are in no
state to be able to inform their parents and their parents aren't likely to
be getting the DP. As long as the staff impress upon the petrified students
*not* to tell their parents when they have recovered their parents could
quite easily not find out. Not that I'm saying he did this, in fact since he
was already suspended briefly and the majority of the wizarding communtiy
knew I can't see why he'd bother, but it is possible. The only problem would
be if there were wizarding siblings - which I don't think there were. (Well
there's Dennis but he wasn't there at the time)

K