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

[redlena_web]

No: HPFGUIDX 127857


mfterman wrote:
> <snip>
> The problem is that Hermione Granger exists in a huge list of
> different files. Sooner or later someone would find a 
> discrepancy.
>
> <snip mfterman quoting me>
> Even so, they'd be constantly using magic to expunge a huge 
> number of records and there's always the possibility that they'll 
> miss something important.
> 
> No, there's a much simpler way: register Hogwarts with the 
> Muggle authorities as a British public school...
<snip a bit for brevity>
> 
> Muggle-borns thus never drop off the radar, or even 
> Half-bloods who attended a Muggle primary school. They 
> simple in the records transfer to an obscure public school in 
> Scotland and that takes care of that.

RedLena:
Your idea would certainly be a viable alternative, but in my 
opinion, Wizards don't seem to always do things in the simplest 
way.

Besides, what I am envisioning is something akin to using a 
stylesheet in the production of a big web site.  Over time, as 
records for a particular child are created, these individual 
records are tagged in some way.  These tags all reference one 
common stylesheet and when the child reaches the age of 11 
and begins at Hogwarts, the stylesheet is altered so that *poof* 
all the child's Muggle records are altered auto-magically at the 
same time.

So some Ministry of Magic employees (possibly interns?) spend 
their time tracking records to magically tag...not expunge or alter, 
just tag.  And once a year a short list of stylesheets are adjusted 
for that year's group of First Years who are coming from the 
Muggle school system.

While this might not seem like the simplest or most likely 
scenario to you (and perhaps it isn't), I'm having fun thinking out 
the details.

-- RedLena