[HPforGrownups] Merope's Selfishness

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 147173

> BAW:
> She could at least have left him at a WIZARDLING orphanage; 
> I'm sure they exist. (We don't know that they do, but we don't 
> know that they don't, and every society must make SOME 
> provision for babies and children whose parents 
>   can't or won't properly care for them.)


Yes, the WW probably does have orphanages, or did, in the 1920's. 
But those orphanages probably have magical ways to find a baby's
relatives and I don't think that Merope would have wanted her child
to fall into her father's or brother's hands.  After all, her own
childhood and existence with them was not exactly fun.

She probably assumed that a muggle orphanage was safer for the baby.

Magda

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