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harry potter - Were the parents of the petrified students notified?


In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets




Slytherin's pet basilisk pertified Filch's cat, Nearly Headless Nick and four students.



Were the parents of the students told what happened to their kids?


It's not clear what the Hogwarts staff did, because if the parents were notified, why haven't they taken out their children from such a dangerous place, but allowed them to return for the next school year? Hermione's parents were even opposed to using a simple spell to do an aesthetic change to her incisors and later



she had to brainwash and send them to Australia instead of explaining things and ask their cooperation.



And if the parents weren't notified, how did the Hogwarts staff explain, for example, why Colin and Justin haven't returned home for Christmas holidays and stopped responding to letters from home?



Answer



I saw similar question on Reddit few years back and I will try to recreate answers as best as I could since I can not find it again for some reason (my google is behaving very strange today)



I don't think school notify muggle parents since they would probably forbid their kids to attend school and all victims were muggle-born Colin Creevey , Justin Finch-Fletchley , Hermione Granger ( not definitive for Penelope Clearwater but she is listed as Muggle-born or half-blood)


Also a quote from Dean Thomas (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) comes to mind



“My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.”



So I am pretty sure kids don't tell their parents what happens at Hogwarts 90% of the time


To answer your question why parents didn't notice anything when they didn't come home for Christmas well I would say that its isn't unusual for kids to stay at Hogwarts over holidays and in middle of Order of Phoenix when Hermione wanted to spend time at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place she tricked her parents into believing that she will be staying in Hogwarts



Harry Potter: "I thought you were skiing with your mum and dad."
Hermione: "Well, to tell you the truth, skiing's not really my thing. So I've come for Christmas... Anyway, Mum and Dad are a bit disappointed, but I've told them that everyone who's serious about the exams is staying at Hogwarts to study. They want me to do well, they'll understand."



— Hermione telling Harry Potter about changing her plans for the 1995 Christmas holidays



And about letters. Considering that there is magic in this world it wouldn't be to hard to charm a quill to write a letter every once in a while to parents, besides since parents are muggles I am not sure they would be able to send anything to their kids without use of an owl which they don't have


On the other hand when Ron got poisoned on his seventeenth birthday and when Ginny got taken to Chamber of Secrets their parents were notified and they didn't forbid them to go back to Hogwarts. So it is safe to say that pure-bloods are expecting some sort of trouble and accidents. After all it is a place full of children who are LEARNING to use agic


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