[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 118949

In a message dated 11/30/2004 10:57:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
snow15145 at yahoo.com writes:
None of the muggle background children that we have met have been 
discouraged from attending Hogwarts
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Sherrie here:

IMHO, the key phrase is "that we have met".  Obviously, the ones we have met 
HAVE chosen to go to Hogwarts - but we have no way of knowing what percentage 
of Muggleborns that actually represents.  There could be twice, thrice, or ten 
times that number who decide otherwise, or whose parents won't permit them.  
We don't know.

As for being able to survive in the Muggle world after Hogwarts - I can't see 
how most of them would have enough of a grounding in Muggle skills to do so.  
Unless old Justin Finch-Fletchley spends his summers taking programming 
courses or auto mechanics - I doiubt very much such things are taught in Muggle 
Studies, nor can I see much of what IS taught at Hogwarts to be translatable to 
the Muggle world.  I haven't seen too many ads for Transfiguration Specialists 
or Potions Masters in the local papers recently... :-)

Sherrie
(off to Gettysburg in about a half-hour!)


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