an 8th year???

[Stephanie]

No: HPFGUIDX 174519

> Melissa:

> Ginny missed a quarter of the year and all the Muggle Borns in
> the other houses would have missed a year. Then there are all
> the Muggle-borns that should have came in as 1st years. Not to
> mention the students that were at Hogwarts that didn't have a
> proper year either. (all the  residents of the RoR)
<SNIP>


And this leads me to wonder how many muggle born wizards and
witches have parents who, after all of this LV bruhaha, decided,

"To heck with it! Pete and Amarantha are going to public school
like everyone else. That wizard school stuff is just too dangerous
and I have too little access to them."

I mean, if my son were at some school I couldn't even get into
and some mad wizard was trying to kill him because he was a two
bit son-of-a-muggle, I'd want to keep him near me in the mundane
world and send him to the school up the street where I understood
the dangers and felt equal to them!

Imagine all the muggle parents trying to storm platform 9 3/4
when they heard there was a problem at the school and their
child might be in danger.

"Wall won't open? If I dynamite it it will!" That could get
verrrry tricky.

Stephanie (Accio Jason Isaacs!---<sigh> guess it doesn't work for
a muggle)