Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119040



> barmaid now:
> <snip>

> 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. <snip>

Carol responds:
As I indicated in another post (not knowing that other posters had
said much the same thing because the post I responded to didn't show
all the threads) I think it would be extremely difficult to get a
college education, much less a job that required one, based on the
Hogwarts curriculum. And the types of jobs available to
non-college-educated Muggles would also be available in the WW and
could be performed using magical aids of some kind. Would you rather
drive the Knight bus or the Oxford tube (which BTW, is a bus, as I
learned to my surprise when I traveled from London to Oxford in 1995)?
Even Tom the innkeeper can use magic to light a fire.

But consider the plight of a Squib. Live in the WW and take a menial
job like Filch because you can't do magic, or live in the MW like Mrs.
Figg and pass as a Muggle? At least they have their cats, and Mrs.
Figg is a member of the Order. But a Muggle-born would have the choice
to practice magic or give it up. It would take a lot--true love of a
Muggle who *can't* live in the WW, most likely, to give up the
excitement of the WW--but for the Squib, there would be no choice but
to watch others using magic or pretend it doesn't exist. I call that a
hard choice, and a sad one.

Carol, who thinks that any eleven-year-old Muggleborn who *wanted* to
go to Hogwarts would hate her parents forever if they deprived her of
her one chance to go to "magic school"