Sheer number of wizards

[DBoyken at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 63430

In a message dated 6/24/2003 9:33:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com writes:

> >--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "thomac77" <thomac77 at y...> 
> >wrote: 
> >>
> >>Muggles, (they are dentists, after all).  They receive a letter 
> >from >>Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry telling them that 
> their >>precocious little Hermione is a witch...and off they send her to 
> >>school?  There must be more to this story.   
> >>
> >
> These are excellent points, and I'm sorry to say this problem never 
> crossed my mind before.  Is it possible that some sort of spell would 
> be cast such that the recipient of the letter would be rendered 
> incapable of divulging the information?  Or a Forgetfulness Charm? 
> 

----------------------------I've always wondered about the muggle/wizard 
secrecy issue, myself, largely due to (you'll excuse the expression) mudblood 
wizards. If muggle-families have children who grow into witches and wizards, 
little by little, isn't the fact that the wizarding world exists going to escape? 
What if, several years from now, Hermione's parents are asked what she does for 
a living and her mom absent-mindedly says, "Oh, she works at Gringotts" or 
"Oh, she's a witch" to a muggle friend? Muggle parents MUST have made this 
mistake from time to time! If magic were solely restricted to wizard families, I 
can see it being kept a secret, but if you've got squibs like Mrs. Figg and 
muggle families with wizard children . . . there's definitely some crossover! And 
you know the more people who know a secret, the less likely it is to be 
kept--exponentially less likely with each new person!

--Deb


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