Platform 9 3/4

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 121138



> > Griffin782002:
> >
> >
> > 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?
> 

Tammy:

JKR said that a representative is sent out in the case of the
muggle-borns, so yeah, that's a known thing. In Harry's case, he's not
officially a muggleborn, so a representative wouldn't be sent to him.
I'm not foolish enough to think that Dumbledore didn't know that Harry
had no knowledge of his magical ability, Dumbledore's been watching
Harry for years - he had to know. I think Dumbledore, and not for the
first or last time - overestimated Hagrid's ability to size up a
situation and react to it appropriately. 

And it's Prof. McGonagall that writes the letters, not DD.

-Tammy