Hogwarts letters (was: H letters, wizarding shopping, and Money issues

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 59121

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "julia_yatsenko" 
<julia_yatsenko at y...> wrote:

> Well and what about muggle-born people who were born in some other 
> country and then moved to England? Will they get a letter? Or will 
> the Quill write them in that very moment when they enter GB-
> grounds? 
> And if the child was born in Britain and then moved to another 
> country, will his/her name be deleted???

My preferred solution is that the Quill writes the names of next 
year's students when it is time to address the letters to them, not 
(despite what JKR said) when they're born.

But if the names are listed at birth, that would be a problem only 
for the Muggle-born and/or Muggle-raised. Parents who are wizards and 
witches would know that their children need to be educated, and would 
know that there are wizarding schools. If they received a letter from 
the school of the country they had left, they could choose to send 
their child to school back in the old country or they could write 
back explaining that they've moved and asking to be referred to the 
school in the new country. If they know to which school they want to 
send their child (the school in the new country, a school in some 
third country e.g. Durmstrang), maybe they could write directly to 
that school without having to ask for a referral.

But not all wizarding schools invite Muggle-born students, so the 
child of immigrant Muggle parents might not get a letter, and 
therefore wouldn't have a *clue* that there are wizarding schools and 
she ought to ask to be referred to Hogwarts. Even if she did get a 
letter from a wizarding school in the old country, even if her 
parents believed it, she might think her only choices were that 
school or nothing, not that she could ask for a referral to something 
closer. Parents would NOT want to send their child back to a country 
that they were refugees from -- too dangerous.