Muggle borns at Hogwarts

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 173303

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "anne_t_squires" > 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
>

You're correct about Muggle-borns not being able to attend Hogwarts. 
But Muggle-borns were, how shall we say, "relieved" of their wands as 
witnessed by the begging adult Muggle-borns in Diagon Alley. 

So if Muggle-borns had their wands confiscated, and if the Floo 
network was being monitor and the portkeys were similarly monitored, 
how did Colin get into Hogsmeade/Hogwarts?

Dean Thomas arrived with Luna, so we can assume he side-by-side 
apparated with Luna. But who picked up Colin and the other Muggle-
born DAs? I don't think members of the OP or the graduated DA would 
pick up Colin--based on Molly's reaction to Ginny being there.

Milz