Muggle Parents and more (was The Malfoys WAS: Wizarding kids and their

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 184033

Justcorbly wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183968>:

<< JKR tells us nothing about how, or if, Hogwarts deals with Muggle
parents. Do they offer counseling session explaining such things as
"Here Is What Your Child Really Is" and "Here Is What The World of
Wizards and Witches Is All About." >>

In a webchat archived at
<http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm>:

<< HPFreak7: How are muggle parents convinced to let their kids go to
Hogwarts, a strange place they never heard of before; and wouldn't
they think it was a practical joke?
JK Rowling replies -> In the case of Muggle parents, special
messengers are sent to explain everything to them. But don't forget
that they will have noticed that there's something strange about their
child for the previous ten years, so it won't come as a complete bolt
from the blue. >>

I suppose everyone knows that <http://www.accio-quote.org/> is the
place to look for citations to what Rowling said outside of her books.
But it also has a news blog on the home page that I bothered to look
at today, and found some things I want to comment on, which is why I
bothered with this reply even tho' Carol had already answered the
question in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/183973>:

<< Rowling on PotterCast! (snip) Jo was sad that she wasn't going to
write a Hogwarts graduation scene. Posted 18 December 2007 by roonwit>>

In the old days of this list, there was a constantly recurring
conversation, consisting of an American listie speculating something
about Hogwarts graduation, followed by a British listie scolding that
British high schools don't have graduations, only universities. No one
was pacified by the suggestion that Hogwarts might have borrowed a
university custom as well as some high school customs. But that quote
suggests that Rowling agreed with it.

<< Information from the WOMBATs. I have been working out how the
WOMBATs are scored, to see what extra information is obtained from
knowing the right answers. Some of what I was able to deduce in this
way is (snip) # There are no female centaurs. # There are no male Veela.>>

Maybe the centaurs and Veela are the males and females of the same
species.

<< It is impossible to transfigure animate objects into inanimate
objects. (snip) Posted 2 December 2007 by roonwit >>

Not so! In PS/SS, the Transfiguration class turns beetles (animate)
into buttons (inanimate) and in Gof, they turn hedgehogs into
pincushions, providing the lovely quote: "I might remind you that
*your* pincushion, Thomas, still curls up in fright if anyone
approaches it with a pin!"