How do Hogwarts' muggle-borns drop off the radar?

[Shunra Shunrata]

No: HPFGUIDX 127813


| Geoff:
| If a child transfers to a school in a different area, the old school
| would normally expect to receive some sort of contact from the new
| one for records etc.
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I've often wondered about a related question - how do the Muggle families 
themselves go about explaining their children's whereabouts to friends and 
family? Harry is an orphan whose aunt and uncle manage to cover up his 
presence at Hogwarts, not least because they make sure Harry has zero social 
life while at Privet Drive. But what about, say, Hermione's dentist parents? 
Don't her proud grandparents want to know if there's going to be another 
professional in the family? Don't her old school friends want to keep in 
touch? What do they tell their friends when the subject turns to their 
children's schooling? Maybe the Muggle school records can be "magicked", but 
explaining where your child disappears to for ten straight months must be 
pretty difficult.

Shunra