Muggle-borns

[Honoria Granger <honoriagranger@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49162

<<Honoria:" 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?"

Jim Ferer:
<"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.
 

Honoria again:

I *like* this idea. Frankly, I can't imagine how it could work out 
otherwise...NO parent is going to let their child go off to some 
invisible, unfindable castle in Scotland sight unseen...maybe pre-
enrollment parental visits could be arranged?

Then again, the Grangers show up in Diagon Alley (at the bank, where 
I presume Hermione got them through the wall) and on Platform 9 and 
3/4 (*without* Hermione, actually waiting for her to get off the 
train at the end of the school year), so obviously Arrangements can 
be made.