"Pathetic" Muggle-borns (Was: JKR messed up........ no.)

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 178496

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> But why would Muggle-borns educated at Hogwarts be reduced to begging
> in the streets (setting aside those whose relatives were being held
> hostage)? 

> So why can't these Muggle-borns, as Del suggested, take refuge in the
> Muggle world among their Muggle relatives, at least till the danger
> passes, or even make a new life for themselves outside the WW?
> Granted, a Hogwarts education isn't much help toward a Muggle career,
> but they can read and write and do some sort of mathematical
> calculations ("I can do maths and stuff," Muggle-raised Harry tells
> Hagrid in SS/PS), and Hogwarts offers at least one Muggle-like 
course,
> Astronomy. Are they really that helpless? 

Allie:

I'm sure they weren't ALL that helpless, but I can think of a lot of 
obstacles for the "wandless," as they're called.  (Besides the fact 
that it's despicable that they should have to leave the world they've 
lived in since the age off 11.  Imagine the frustration!!!)

All of their money is likely to be saved in Gringotts Bank, which now 
has been infiltrated by Death Eaters, so it's not readily accessible 
to them.  Anything that was hidden under the mattress, so to speak, is 
not in a form that's easy to spend in the Muggle world.  They might 
get by at least for a little while by exchanging their gold galleons.  

The wandless beggar who runs up to Hermione-Bellatrix in Diagon Alley 
is asking about his children.  If children are being kidnapped and 
held prisoner, I don't think their parents are likely to retreat back 
to the Muggle world and leave their kids behind.  Plus, not everyone 
will have relatives or want to endanger these relatives with their 
presence.

Not everyone who has been investigated is truly Muggle-born.  Some of 
the people are likely Half-Bloods and Blood-traitors with little 
refuge in the muggle world.  

11-year-old muggle education and high school level astronomy is not 
really considered satisfactory schooling for most careers.  Most of 
these people would be relegated to low-level food-service type jobs.  
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it would certainly be a 
step down for many.