[HPforGrownups] Re: Sheer number of wizards

[Jennifer Angliss]

No: HPFGUIDX 63628

At 08:16 PM 06/24/2003 , DBoyken at aol.com wrote:

>----------------------------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!

It could be that there is something like a Secrecy Charm that is put on 
Hermione's parents or other relatives "in the know" which prevents 
slip-ups. As for squibs, since they are probably brought up in the 
wizarding world, it would have been drummed into them since childhood that 
there are things you don't talk about with muggles.

Jennifer