Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[hogsheadbarmaid]

No: HPFGUIDX 118925


> Barmaid wrote : "
> _And_ I do not see anything in canon that makes the Muggle world
> "lost" to Muggleborn magical children, as Del suggests.   Rather, as
> Jim suggests, I think the magical world is likely to be a place 
these
> type of children will find appealing and will want to make their 
home.
>  As Jim says
. "at least part time"."
> 
> Del replies :
> Tell me : what *can* the Muggleborn wizards do in the Muggle world ?
> I'm not talking holidays or shopping trips, I'm talking living in 
the
> MW, contributing to it.
> 
> Del

barmaid now:

Actually you make a good point.  They are not trained in any 
practical Muggle skills.  But having spent their formative years 
there I think they could, if they wanted or needed to, learn to be 
useful in the Muggle world. 

It is not really that I think most Muggleborns would spend a lot of 
time in the MW... it is just that I don't agree with what I thought 
you were saying... that entering the WW makes the "world" or "worlds" 
available to the individual smaller, more narrow... rather than 
bigger, broader...  

I do think a Muggleborn magical person... if forced for some reason 
back into the MW would be able to survive... I think it would be much 
harder for a Muggleborn magical person who had not been exposed to 
the WW, who found themselves suddenly thrust into the WW as an adult, 
to cope.  I think the Muggleborn magical person who has gone to 
Hogwarts has more options in adult life, not less. 

Of course I agree with you that most often the Muggleborns will be 
likely to identify primarily as members of the Wizarding Community.  
I just do not think the decision to enter that world cuts them off 
from the larger world quiet as much as it seems to me you do.  I 
could be wrong though!  Wouldn't be the first time!

 --barmaid