Muggle Parents and more

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 184060

Carol:

"Another small thing--I don't thing there's any danger that the 
parents of Muggle-borns, whether or not they send their kids to 
Hogwarts, will talk to other Muggles about it. We see the Muggle 
Prime Minister absolute certainty that he'll never speak of his 
contacts with the WW. He knows that no one would believe him and 
fears, IIRC, that he'd be considered insane. (Petunia must have 
had a similar fear when she told Vernon about her disgraceful 
relatives.)"
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"Little Hyacinth?  She's at St. Rita's; the sisters are so good 
at encouraging clever girls.

Little Ethelbert? He went to Godric Hall; he's such an athletic 
boy, you know, and they have excellent sports facilities.

Little Gertrude? St. Helga's; they provide such a well rounded 
education.

Little Tommy? Oh, Dr. Salazar's. So many influential people 
send their children there; he'll make so many little friends 
who will do him well in later life."

JKR has said also that not all wizardling families send their 
children to Hogwarts, but teach them at home. Perhaps there is 
a scheme whereby Muggle parents who are absolutely opposed to 
sending their children away will send their magesports to Muggle 
schools under a *geas* not to discuss CERTAIN TOPICS while a 
wizard teacher comes to the home to give special lessons.
"It is ill done to keep dark the mind of the mageborn." 
Almost every fantasy series that has a working system of 
magic described has some variant of this saying. It would 
not be hard for the outreach worker to demonstrate to Muggle
parents how having an untrained magesport running around 
would be a danger not only to the child, but to the larger 
community; after such a demonstration, I think that most 
Muggle parents would not only be willing to send the kid 
to Hogwarts, but a not-insignificant number would be glad 
to be rid of him/her.

I'm not entirely unsure that one of Prof. McG.'s jobs might 
not be to deal with Muggleborn students who, at the end of 
the year, don't find anyone waiting at King's Cross for them, 
whose Muggle parents have told the neighbors that the kid
is dead or gone to live with distant relatives; particularly 
students from broken homes, where a stepparent has said 'me 
or the magebrat.' She may have a list of Wizardling families 
willing to take in fosterlings; if the Weasleys hadn't so 
many of their own, I'm sure that Molly and Arthur would be 
on the list, considering how they informally took in Harry 
and to a lesser extent Hermione, and it is not unreasonable 
that others might not be so encumbered. (The Diggorys, after 
Cedric's death, might ask to be put on the list, for example.)

Bruce Alan Wilson

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