[HPforGrownups] Platform 9 3/4

[TrekkieGrrrl]

No: HPFGUIDX 121125



> mworth1019 wrote:
>
> How do the wizard/witch children of muggles figure out how to get
> onto Platform 9
> 3/4 on their first trip to Hogwarts?  Harry lucked out and found the
> Wealsleys' but others may not be so lucky?  I know that Hagrid tells
> Harry to "stick to his ticket" but that did not help much.

> Griffin782002 now:
>
>
> I wonder if those representatives that visit Muggle families with magical 
> children exept informing the parents about their children's unusual 
> abilities, also tell them about the platform.


TrekkieGrrrl:

Is it generally accepted knowledge that muggleborns are visited by someone 
from the WW? When Petunia speaks about Lily's letter she merely says that 
her parents were proud the day her letter came, nothing about them ever 
being visited by wizards. But perhaps things were explained more thoroughly 
in the letters to muggleborns, and because Harry was supposed to know about 
the WW, it didn't say anything about the things that were regarded common 
knowledge for a wizard kid.

Yet, Dumbledore must have known Petunia's stance on wizards, even McGonagall 
says they're the "worst sort of muggles" - so he ought to know that Harry 
would NOT be trained or told about magic and the Wizarding World. And 
Dumbledore writes the Hogwarts letters? Or does he?

~TG