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 Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:15 am
Okay, what happens to the muggleborn Witches and Wizards? I mean, they get their letters at such, but how in the world do they know that it's real? As well, how do they find the Leaky Cauldron and get to Diagon Alley?
That's all I was wondering. smile
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:16 am
Lianara Okay, what happens to the muggleborn Witches and Wizards? I mean, they get their letters at such, but how in the world do they know that it's real? As well, how do they find the Leaky Cauldron and get to Diagon Alley?
That's all I was wondering. smile I think someone goes and talks to them... Like Tom. Dumbledore came and talked to him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:25 am
Diana's probably right. Someone experienced in the wizarding world will probably go and help them with getting their things and help them adjust. I always thought it would be crazy to be a muggle and be bitten by a werewolf, because then you're being thrown into the wizarding world AND you're a werewolf so you're already hated.
Lia, you know my RP character, Jon? That's what happened to him, poor bloke.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:25 pm
Well, someone had to come and talk to Lily's parents - Snape said so.
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:09 pm
Do you think they'd send someone from the school or from the Ministry of Magic?
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:44 pm
Hmmm. Good question. In Tom's case, it was someone from the school, so I think it'd be the same for the others. Maybe it's one of the Deputy Headmaster/mistress' jobs? I can see McGonagall being the one to have to do it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:36 am
But, isn't muggles finding out about magic a really big deal? The wizards at the Ministry would really have to emphasize the fact that the muggleborn's parents wouldn't tell anyone that they knew. Even if no one would believe them, there is always that one crazy guy that has a theory about the world, that is frighteningly accurate. Like... the teacher from Fairly Odd Parents. o____+
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:35 am
I think generally it's the Deputy Headmaster/mistress. Except in Harry's case, it was Hagrid. But Harry defies logic. And... everything else. Stupid Harry...
I think they'd send someone from the school, because really, it's not a ministry concern. If the muggle goes mad, well, then they can send an Obliviator, but other than that, it should be fairly simple. The parent's main concern is presumably for their child, right?
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:43 am
Yeah, but it is a Ministry concern, especially if the muggle or the muggles parents were to let something slip to the other normal people. They'd have to have Obliviators ready just in case.
And, I don't this it's just the Duputy Headmaster/mistress. I mean, there are quite a few muggleborns... how would they get to them all?
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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:29 pm
Apparition, maybe?
I think it's a school concern, and that the Ministry only steps in if absolutely necessary. I don't think the Headmasters/Headmistresses of Hogwarts would allow anything else. They're a pretty fiercely independent school, after all.
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:14 pm
I guess. I can see how it would be a Ministry affair as well, though. But, that's just me. ^^;
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:35 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|The Ministry might want it to be their affair, but Hogwarts has a history of doing what it wants when it wants without outside interference. I can't see Dumbledore, for example, taking Ministry intervention too well, and I'm sure that some of the other Heads (Fortescue and Phineas, for example) would have been the same.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:19 am
Yeah, I can see the Ministry trying to have as much control over the situation as they can. Unfortunately for them, crazy a** Headmasters put them back in their place.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:15 pm
And power-hungry Slytherin loved those of great ambition...|> ---|Hell yes.
But the comments of previous Headmasters in OotP paint a picture of a Ministry that was once quite different. Fortescue is adamant that the Ministry did not strike deals with petty criminals (that's the paraphrased version of the quote, I don't know it quite well enough to quote from memory with confidence), which tells me that the Ministry used to be quite a lot less corrupt - still elitist and conservative, but with the sense of honour that almost comes part and parcel with arch-conservatism.
I don't know if this means that the Ministry was more involved in Hogwarts affairs once upon a time, but I think it's interesting to note.
School administrators are often deeply embroiled in political games of their own. I can see some Headmasters wanting the Ministry's favour and thus letting them have perhaps a little more control than usual.
And yes, I know I just went against some of what I said before, but my point is that times change and today is not necessarily the same as yesterday, which I think is something to remember.|--- <|Slytherin Pride!
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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:41 pm
Yes... Quite...
That's also very true in the real world, unfortunately. Times change, and with time, everything else changes.
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