Muggle borns at Hogwarts

[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 173279


>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mjanetd" <mjanetd@> wrote:
> >
> > Why was Colin Creevey still at school during the battle at Hogwarts?  
> > Wasn't he and his brother muggleborn?  I remember their father was 
> milk-
> > man.  Why would they allow mud-bloods at school when they were taking 
> > wands away from muggle-born adults?
> > 
> > And another question.  Someone mentioned in another thread that the 
> > Dursley's died when Diggle's house blew up.  I've only read DH once 
> so 
> > the little details are vague.  I'd hate to think the Dursleys died.
> > 
> > Janet
> >
> 
> RE: Muggle-borns at Hogswart
> 
> Perhaps they continued to allow them there in order to keep an eye on 
> them...So that Hogswarts became a type of Warsaw Ghetto for Muggle-born 
> students. If they just let these children go back to their Muggle 
> families, they wouldn't be able to monitor them or "examine" them. 
> 
> The Muggle-borns were suspected of stealing magical powers and how they 
> stole it was a question that the DEs wanted "answered". Something tells 
> me is a thinly veiled allusion to human experimentation, similar to the 
> kind that Mengele did at Auschwitz---that Muggle-borns were tortured 
> under the excuse of determining how they stole magical powers. 
> 
> Neville admitted that the Carrows tortured students and that Michael 
> Corner was tortured for freeing a first year student. Moreover, the 
> professors tried not to send anyone for disciplining as much as 
> possible. 
> 
> So I guess the professors and the DA pure bloods and half-bloods 
> protected the Muggle borns as much as possible, perhaps even to the 
> point of saying that they committed the offense and not the accused 
> Muggle-born.
> 
> RE: Dursley's
> I think the Dursley's are the 3 Muggle deaths reported by Potterwatch. 
> 
> Milz
>
Anne Squires:

I am sorry; but, I have to disagree with your reading of Colin
Creevey's presence during the battle.  Right before the first attack
Neville says that he had used the spelled galleons to contact the
Order and the DA.  Then, to use his words, "it snowballed from there."
 The ROR was full of people arriving to fight.  I think that's when
Colin arrived.  He had been in the DA.  Later the underage wizards
were told to leave; but people obviously came back into the castle
(Draco et al).

In DH all muggleborns are being hunted down.  Only half bloods and
purebloods were allowed to attend Hogwarts.  There weren't any
muggleborns there.  That doesn'r mean that students didn't need
protecting from the Carrows; but those students who were tortured by
the Carrrows weren't muggleborns.

On another note:  I would like to see the cannon that Diggle's house
blew up.  I never saw that.  In the Potterwatch broadcast they say a
Muggle family of five was found dead in their home.  The Muggle
authorities were reporting that it was from a gas leak.  Potterwatch
says they were victims of the Killing Curse.  Nothing was blown up. 
If two of the dead were Diggle and Hestia Jones, it seems to me this
would have been reported by the MoM as a warning to people who were
helping Potter and the Order. 

Anne Squires