Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 118762


Snow wrote :
" I don't know whether the parents or the child would be ecstatic over
 the offer to attend Hogwarts but it would, after many years of
unusual happenings with the child, give both the parents and the child
a reason for the child's strange behavior."

Del replies :
You too assume that all magical kids routinely make weird things
happen, but it's not true. Neville had to be forced to produce some
magic. It might depend on the magical ablities, or on self-control or
whatever.

In particular, if it depends on self-control, then hopefully as the
child grows up he will learn to master himself and stop those things
from happening. And if he can't, then that means that he will never be
able to live in the Muggle World anymore. How nice, as a parent, to be
told that your 11-year-old kid is condemned to live in another world
forever...

Moreover, if it was just a matter of learning to control their magic
to avoid unexpected bursts of it, I'm sure the Muggleborn kids could
be either shortly trained or have some spell or potion used on them to
obtain that result. Hogwarts isn't training them not to do magic ;
exactly the opposite in fact.

Snow wrote :
"What would be the alternative to accepting this invitation to
Hogwarts? For the child to realize their magical potential but be
denied nurturing of that ability would only infuriate the child, it
would not stop the ability that the child has."

Del replies :
What about any other ability that child might have ? What about any
other interests he might have ?
Going to Hogwarts means saying good-bye to his friends, abandoning his
music or sport training, leaving the Boy Scouts or whatever
organisation he might belong to, missing out on the week-ends at
Grandma's, and so on.
Not so obvious a choice I say.

Del