[HPforGrownups] Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 119953

Annette wrote:
>Homeschooling is also legal in the U.S., but is supervised by the state
>school system - parents have to file reports with the local school that the
>child would have been attending - so there would still be a record of the
>child.  The child must be in school up till a certain age, and the record
of
>the child would rest either with the state school or with the private
>school, if that's where they attend.  I was not ignorant of homeschooling,
I
>was including those kids in the "state school" group.  Even if the
>authorities are slow and infrequent about checking, I can't imagine that
the
>entire population of Hogwart's would go unnoticed decade after decade.  I
>also assume that the majority of the muggle-borns attended regular school
>prior to Hogwart's (and, as you state, only 1% are homeschooled).  That was
>my point anyway ;)

Simplest explanation is often the best.

It's done by magic. Yes, the child is still on the records. But there's a
spell so that no one notices that they've gone missing. That's the magic.
It's not remarkable. People's eyes just slide over it.

Same thing's true for the family. Yes, everyone knows that they've got a
child at Hogwarts. But no one ever mentions it because it's not remarkable.
Their minds just slide away when they think about it.

The WW has had 300 years' practice in hiding itself from Muggles. I would
imagine those spells are pretty watertight by now.

Cheers

Ffred

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