Identifying with Muggles - The Dursley and 'Terrifying' Abuse

[Clifford Vander Yacht]

No: HPFGUIDX 158375

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:

> Carol responds:
> Forgive me for responding to a single point rather than the whole
> post, but I believe that you're operating on a false assumption here.
> Harry's *parents* didn't "put his name down for Hogwarts," the magical
> quill did. <snip>
> As I understand it, McGonagall sends out Hogwarts letters to the
> parents of magical children who will turn eleven on or before August
> 31 of any given year, and she gets those names from the book or roll
> of parchment on which the magical quill has recorded them.
> 
> I don't have time to check the actual reference, but according to the
> Lexicon, "A magical quill at Hogwarts detects the birth of each
> magical child, then writes his or her name down in a large parchment
> book. Every year Professor McGonagall checks the book, then uses this
> information to send out owls to these children as they approach their
> eleventh birthdays"(Sch1)."
> 
> Carol, not sure whether this information invalidates your argument but
> thinking that it ought to be considered

Cliff:
As there is room for just five boys and five girls in each House, a
total of twenty each per year, are magical children born too late
turned away? Is that how Argus Filch became a squib, born too late in
the year? Or is the list kept open in case a magical child dies?

Cliff, just kidding. But magic must play a part here.