Christmas Gifts from Dursleys

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 77139

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thetruthisoutthere_13" 
<free_lunch_club at h...> wrote:
> Or perhaps Hogwarts has some system for students like Hermione to 
> stay in touch with their parents. Perhaps the Muggle Studies 
teacher 
> makes trips to the nearest muggle post office for the students? 
The 
> students of muggle birth should know how to address/stamp/etc an 
> evelope, and (I hope) the Muggle Studies prof should know how to 
> blend in and send letters at a Muggle Post Office. Hmm, wonder who 
> the muggle studies prof is . . .
> 
Maybe Hogwarts has a Post Office box somewhere in London, where 
Muggle mail can be sent and then picked up by a MoM employee and 
forwarded by owl.  There have to be some contact points between the 
WW and Muggle world; remember in Gringott's in CoS, Arthur Weasley 
is so interested when he sees Hermione's parents exchanging money 
there.  Someone through the bank has to be able to transfer that 
Muggle money back into the outside banking system, or it would just 
sit there uselessly.  And I suspect the Goblins are intent upon 
getting whatever interest they can, even if they have to do business 
with a Muggle bank.

Wanda