Flying cars and platform 9 3/4

[Jim Ferer <jferer@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49173

Me:"If you could find the Leaky Cauldron, for instance, and somehow
notice  it (people's eyes slide right over it; they don't notice)
could you go  in? Hermione's parents presumably did."

Jazmyn:"Hermione's parents likely had a guide from the school, like
Hagrid did for Harry, taking Hermione and her parents and showing them
how to get in and all the first time. I think once a muggle has been
SHOWN where it is and knows it for what it is, it might negate the
effects of any spells that cause them to not notice it. The
'knowledge' that it is indeed there may be too strong for the spell to
work."

I think you're right.  I have speculated before that every new
[Muggle-born] student has a guide, perhaps an older, also Muggle-born,
student for most kids, who shows them around.  The Muggle parents can
help the new parents deal with the shock of their sense of reality
being torn off its pins.

It's like some optical illusions: once you've been shown the trick,
you see it every time.  These are likely to be subtle, 'weak,' spells,
that any magical person would see right through.

Jim Ferer, who doesn't need any help not to notice stuff