Hogwarts letters Re: Choosing sides

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 118898


Del replies : "I don't see it exactly like that. From the way it
looks, Muggleborns just trade one world for another. They leave the
Muggle World to go and live in the WW. And considering that the WW is
a secret world, I wouldn't say that going to Hogwarts opens the world
to them, quite the opposite. It's like moving from the States to some
unknown little country, where you'll have more possibilities but where
you'll become lost to the rest of the world."

Barmaid:"What canon is there to back up the idea that Muggleborns must
"leave the Muggle World" and be confined withing the WW??"

There isn't any "must" about it; Muggleborns *do* leave the mundane
world for the magical world, _at least part time._ We've seen
Hermione, for example, spending ten months a year in the wizard world
for five years now.  What we don't know much about is how a Muggleborn
lives her life or his life after Hogwarts. 

I agree with Del that most Muggleborn wizards almost surely do spend
most or all of their time in the wizard world.  That's their
education, their skill, and being magical is the thing that sets them
apart from the Muggle world outside. It'd actually be difficult to go
back much; the new wizard has to hide what he is, where he's been, and
what he can do; in the Muggle world, a wizard has a big secret to keep.  

It's circumstances that keep a new wizard in the wizard world, not any
kind of compulsion.  I'm sure Muggleborns visit, and shop, and so on
in the Muggle world, but it would be awfully hard to really "go back."

Jim Ferer