Muggle Born Wizards and the Law of Secrecy (samll spoilers)

[Grey Wolf]

No: HPFGUIDX 63557

Snos wrote:
> There must be a certain amount that [muggles are] allowed to be told. 
> After all when Hermione gets her letter and badge for being Prefect 
> she asks Harry if she can borrow Hedwig to tell her parents as this 
> is "something they can understand", which gave me the impression that 
> the chn are allowd to tell their parents about their life in the WW. 
> I for one would like to know how they explain away the owls arriving 
> at their home and how do they summon one if they want to send their 
> kids something??
> 
> Snos

I have held a theory for some time now that muggle mail and owl mail 
are joined at one specific place arranged between the MoM and the 
British Goverment (we have canon that they both comunicate, both in PoA 
and in OoP). We also know that muggles can send things by post to the 
WW, since the Dursleys used to send presents to Harry (old socks, 50 p, 
a coat hanger, etc).

My theory says that there is a especial postal code where all WW mail 
is sent. When the post office receives a packet for "Brian Dumbledore" 
at this postal code, they just send it to a special place where a bunch 
of wizards from the MoM simply load the letters onto owls and send them 
to the apropiate person. This is the logical way for it to work, since 
most muggles (even the ones aware of the WW and thus interested in 
writting mil to it) don't have access to post owls, and the WW is not 
reachable by post-men (particularly not Hogwarts)

Outgoing mail from the WW to the muggle world would work in a different 
way, since they have access to both methods. For example, the Weasleys 
try to send a letter by regular mail to Harry in GoF. I suspect they 
used this method because Arthur always insists in doing things the 
muggle way. But I also suspect that they could've sent an owl with the 
letter to the appropiate MoM division, and they would've passed it on 
to the muggle mail system (hopefully less incompetently than the 
Weasley's attempt at the number of stamps). Of course, they could've 
simply sent a owl all the way (which, I imagine, was the method 
Hermione used).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf