Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[snow15145]

No: HPFGUIDX 118782


Del replies to (me)Snow :
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.

Snow:

Different circumstances with non-muggle born children like Neville 
who for some reason needed to be prompted to show his ability. 


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.

Snow:

I realize where you are approaching this from but you seem not to be 
taking into account the fact that this magical tendency that appears 
abruptly, without notification can be scary to the child and/or his 
peers, which could cause him to feel like a freak, different or 
unusual and therefore not be accepted to join the main stream. 
Let's take it to a different level, yet the same, Lupin the werewolf. 
If your child had these tendencies, that again are non-expectant, and 
you receive a letter informing you that your child may attend a 
school where he may be accepted more readily than with the common 
populous, would you then deny him the opportunity? The child has not 
lost a world but added a world. Unless the parent abandons the child 
to the magical world, what has the child lost? 

Snow