Mark Evans - repost of theory

[fuzzlebub85 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 96129

Alice said: 
> (snip)some sort of magic quill writes down the 
> name of any wizard-born and student-to-be of Hogwarts.

True. J.K. Rowling stated this in an interview. BUT she also said (in another interview or maybe the same one, I can't remember!) that the *Ministry* does not know about *Muggle-born* students *before* they get their letters. The quill belongs to *Hogwarts*, not the *Ministry*. 

fuzzlebub85, apologizing for all the asterisk emphasis but finding it necessary

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