How can they tell who's a Muggle?/Masons

[finwitch <finwitch@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 52362

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "GRACE701 <grace701 at y...>" 
<grace701 at y...> wrote:
> As I'm re-reading GoF, I've come to a halt.  How can Wizards, 
> particularly the DEs, tell who is a Muggle?  It can't be because 
they 
> wear Muggle clothing because the Weasley kids wear Muggle clothes.  
> The only thing that can give a Muggle away is if they speak to 
> someone and show them their lack of knowledge about the WW.  Unless 
> you're Hermione.  :-D
> 
> So does anyone know the answer?

Well - the DEs were flying too high to hear them... and all wizards 
were in Muggle clothes. So it's possibly a magical skill Harry hasn't 
learned yet... After all, a magical kid's name gets written into 
Hogwarts book at birth. Perhaps doing magic (with or without a wand) 
leaves a track on you - a track that Muggles lack. A personal track 
that Owls can use to find a wizards/witches where ever they are.

I think that the Masons are magical, and that it was truly one of 
them doing the Hoovering Charm, thus scaring Dobby away. Dursleys 
don't know, the letter was sent to 'the wizard who did magic at 
Privet Drive 4' - logic told the writer it was Harry, but magic told 
the owl it was Mason (I don't know which, but the owl did)...

And of the Mason couple might be members of the secret part of 
Ministry of Magic (no one knows what they do) - or just a couple who 
chose to live as Muggles, because Mrs Mason has an owl-phobia or owl-
allergy or what ever...

-- Finwitch