Muggle-borns

[Jim Ferer <jferer@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49154

Honoraria:" Given that as Jodel has pointed out, there is a huge
security risk in the WW contacting Muggle parents of magical children
(what's to stop just one freaked-out parent from blowing the whistle
completely? A  Memory Charm?), just how do we suppose most such
parents reacted?"

I've wondered about that myself. How do you get parents to believe it?
Was this the scene at the Granger household four years ? excuse me,
five now ? ago?

"Did you see the post, dear?  Hermione?s been accepted at a school for
witchcraft!"

"Oh, jolly good, dear! Is she going to go live in a, what's the word,
'coven?' I supposed we'll just have to let her nip off and buy these
witchcraft supplies on this list!"

Yeah, right.

OTOH, if you went around telling this story about your kid, how would
that go over? I can just imagine the friendly conference at school,
with the Family Services folks present, and we just want to help you?

I postulated in a fic I wrote once that volunteer parents ? Muggles
whose children were magical ? visit the new families and help them get
through the shock, and convince them this is real.