An idea...

[Lisa]

No: HPFGUIDX 171894

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Dantzel Withers <shmantzel at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Lisa:
> I don't know that any family knows their child is "put down for
> Hogwarts" at birth -- we don't know that James & Lily knew about
> Harry. We only know that Hagrid knew that Harry was, and likely that
> is because Dumbledore told him.
>    
>   Dantzel replies:
>   We know that Riddle was down for Hogwarts since birth - 
Dumbledore told the head of the orphanage so.
>    
>   So that's two sources so far. I would say it is fair to assume 
that if you are magical, you have been down since birth.
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Now Lisa:

That wasn't my point though.  I wasn't disputing the fact that 
magical children "are" on Hogwarts' admission list since birth, I was 
saying that we do not know if any FAMILY knows whether their child is 
on said list.