Hogwarts Letters to Children with Muggle Parents

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No: HPFGUIDX 113121

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...>
wrote:
> If my child got a letter stating that he/she had been accepted to a 
> school for witchraft or wizardry, I don't know if I'd be happy
about 
> it.  Does the school assume that everyone who receives such a
letter 
> will be overjoyed and will enroll their child?  
> 
> Or maybe those families who don't want their children enrolled are 
> simply horrified, like the Dursleys, and keep it to themselves?
> 
> It just seems like a risky business to me when the MOM works to 
> prevent the Muggles from knowing about the wizarding world.
> 
> Angie

Sue

Chuckle! Interesting thought. Well, if your child got a letter from
Hogwarts, presumably it would come by owl, which would suggest there was
something legitimately magical about the whole business. The child would 
have been doing things that neither you nor he/she could explain... until the
letter arrived. And if you did tear up the letter, perhaps a trusted teacher
such as Minerva McGonagall, or even Dumbledore himself, would turn up to
explain why it was a good idea for your gifted child to learn how to use
his/her powers so as not to harm himself or anyone else. I am quite sure that 
if Prof Dumbledore turned up on my doorstep, my kid would end up on the 
next train to Hogwarts! :-)

But yes, a good question - what if DD and his staff turned up to talk
you into it and you still said no? What would the Ministry do? Perhaps put a
memory charm so you wouldn't talk, but then what? Would there be some 
way to keep the child from getting into trouble with magic? (This is starting to
sound uncomfortably like the treatment of 'refusenik' telepaths in Babylon
5, so I'd better stop here!). Presumably they don't get too many knockbacks.