Losing your parents is no fun. Depending on your circumstances (and the relative benevolence of your creator), you may end up with some clueless but good-natured Muggle Foster Parents, or you could be Raised by Wolves. If you're really unlucky, though -- or if you need an appropriately tragic backstory -- you'll end up in an Orphanage of Fear. Compare Boarding School of Horrors. Sadly, both institutions are still Truth in Television. Read up on conditions in Victorian orphanages some time; current ones are not always significantly better. Also compare Department of Child Disservices.