Thoughts about Racism in HP (LONG)

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 102417

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:

> A question I've always wondered is. What if a Muggle family refuses 
> to allow their child to go to Hogwarts? Maybe they are like the 
> Dursleys, or maybe the father had 16 generations of his family go 
to 
> Eton and just refuses to allow his son to go anywhere else?
> 
> What do McGonagall and D-Dore do then? It would seem parents still 
> have the right to keep their children from there, much the same way 
> parents of a child who is 12 and scores 1600 on the SAT (a perfect 
> score for a college aptitude test, for our international friends) 
> don't HAVE to send that kid to college right away.

I suspect, if they are qualified to attend Hogwarts, they posses a 
certain level of skill.  With that skill come various unexplainable 
incidents (like Harry appearing on the roof at school).  If the 
Dursleys had a child like that, they might want to do what they could 
to keep them under wraps.  As such, it might not be too difficult to 
convince them to send that child away.  If they go to Dad's Alma 
Mater, everyone will know about the strange things that happen around 
them.

Or perhaps there's some kind of charm that can be olaced upon them to 
keep their skills from developing.