Christmas Gifts from Dursleys

[ariadnemajic]

No: HPFGUIDX 77200

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" 
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> 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.


I've been wondering about the Muggle/WW interaction since POA, when 
we find out that Fudge has consulted with the Muggle Prime Minister 
about Sirius (when he escapes from Azkaban). Yet in GOF, the WW takes 
SO many precautions for the Quidditch WC, and places constant memory 
charms on all the Muggles.  Can we assume the Prime Minister has 
extensive memory work done at some point as well? Of course, Sirius 
was supposedly an escaped convict for approximately two years--that's 
a lot of "Obliviates!"  It's also hard to imagine how a Goblin goes 
about getting money changed without suspicion. Oh, well, I'll just 
keep imagining that somehow wizards and witches are clever enough to 
make it all work.  Ariadne