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Originally posted by Ginger
Somewhat off the topic at hand, but I've been thinking about the Grainger family.
To my understanding, the wizarding world goes to GREAT lengths to keep Muggles from realizing they exist. Yet Hermione seems to have studied about Hogwarts for a long time before she got her letter. How would she know about it? And how would it be explained to her parents? "Sir and Ma'am, we'd like to take your daughter away to a secret boarding school that you can't visit, and we can't tell you what happens there"?
any ideas?
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It's possible that Hermione herself only found out about the wizarding world when she got her letter. Since she's Muggle-born, she probably got some information on the wizarding world along with her letter. Then she went off and did some research on her own (being Hermione
).
Or it could be that potential Muggle-born wizards, and their Muggle parents, are contacted well in advance of the summer before they'd start at Hogwarts, and taught about the wizarding world in preparation.
The wizarding world does go to great lengths to keep
most Muggles from realizing they exist - but Muggles who are immediate relatives of wizards (including Muggle parents, siblings, and (I would guess) spouses of wizards, as well as Squibs) are let in on the secret.