Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 119183


Kim wrote :
" But I guess I was seeing the Muggle world (vs. Muggle family) as
being so much less important to Muggleborns already that being cut off
from it wouldn't make a great deal of difference to them anyway."

Del replies :
That's what I've been wondering about all along : how can ALL the
Muggleborns we know apparently care so little about the world they
grew up in ?
One simple answer comes to my mind, though, now that I think of it :
they probably simply don't realise what's going on. I guess one reason
Hermione doesn't mind putting Harry over her parents is because she
assumes that her parents will always be there for her, waiting for her
patiently back in the safe Muggle World. It's an assumption all kids
make, after all.

Kim wrote :
"Oh, how I wish witches and wizards would show themselves again, it's
so dull out here without them."

Del replies :
I beg to differ ! I find the MW exciting enough the way it is !

Kim wrote :
" These seem to be a bit (or a lot?) like the choices real world
immigrants have to make.  And so, not being an immigrant myself
(though I am the granddaughter of immigrants), I would bow to those
who know better firsthand what that's like."

Del replies :
I am an immigrant myself. That's why I am so concerned about this
leaving behind the MW. I've left my home country behind me too, but
it's not like with the WW and the MW : coming to my new country won't
change me in ways that will prevent me from being truly happy again in
my home country. If there had been such a possibility, I'm not sure I
would have been so willing to come, even though I had a really good
incentive to come. And I wasn't 11 either, nor did I come here on my
own. But then again, the Muggleborn kids probably never realised how
much they would be changed by the time they would leave Hogwarts.

Del