If Ministries keep records of this, how do they find Muggle-borns? Discussions online suggest they simply keep an eye out for underage magic in non-wizarding communities, dispatching a team of Ministry employees to investigate and report back.

Let’s assume that all Ministries were subjected to a rigorous deletion of records during Voldemort’s reign and that the theory extends to all countries. The first question that comes to mind is if this covers all Muggle-born witches and wizards or just those in the UK and Ireland where Voldemort held the most power and influence.

This means that anyone born between the years of 19 could, theoretically, be of magical blood.Īs a Muggle born within this timeframe, I delighted in imagining that my letter was misplaced and dove into this theory further. He could have done it too he controlled the media and the Ministry. It is conceivable then, knowing his hatred for mixed blood, that Voldemort had the remaining Muggle-born records deleted – records from 1985 through 1998 when he fell. If our calculations are correct, then the last set of 11-year-olds to receive their letters would have been born in 19. Voldemort gained (again) peak power during the years of 19. The theory goes that Voldemort, in his second rise to power, destroyed all the records of Muggle-born witches and wizards who hadn’t yet hit 11 years of age, thus eliminating their chance of receiving a Hogwarts acceptance letter. Voldemort destroyed records of Muggle-born witches and wizards, meaning they never got their letters of admittance to Hogwarts.

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