So Hermonie is a Muggle-Born Witch, meaning she is a witch despite coming from a No-Maj family.

When we see her, she is already a learned witch having buried her nose so far into the books that she effortlessly and immediately fixes Harry's glasses upon meeting him. She is shown buried in the art of witchcraft so much so that she sees being expelled from Hogwarts as less preferable than Death.

Given that she came from ordinary humans, how does this work?

Because, her parents didn't know magic existed until they got the letter from Hogwarts. How did they know to go to Diagon Alley to get Hermonie's wizarding supplies? How did they know how to find Diagon Alley? How did they pay for Hermonie's supplies with British Pounds, since they obviously don't have wizard money? Why did they even humor the idea of a Wizard School wanting to teach Hermonie magic instead of writing it off as a joke or scam?

How is it that Hermonie immediately started studying and completely skipped the "Holy shit, magic is real!" phase that should naturally come with all of this?

I mean Harry didn't know any of this either, but he had Hagrid helping him.

Did someone from the school take Hermonie to Diagon Alley and help her? Did they pay for her books? If there's a financial aid program, why didn't it help Ron?

I just have so many questions about what goes into getting a Muggle-Born Magic User ready for Magic School.

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago

It's not a huge stretch to assume that all muggleborns get a guide assigned who takes them on an outing to diagon alley. And they do have banks, obviously wizards have a way to exchange wizard money for human money so it has to work the other way around, too. Then again, it wouldn't have been hard to write that explicitly if that was indeed how it's supposed to work, and HP is the kind of world where they throw tons of insane shit at people and tell them to just deal with it.

And most likely, the author just didn't give it a single thought.

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