[HPforGrownups] Question about Muggles knowing about Wizards

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47953



Summer * wrote:
> 
> Okay, as we have seen, Wizards try to keep themselves and their world
> very
> separate from the Muggle world because they don't really want Muggles
> to
> know about them, but what about Lilly Potter? Somewhere in SS Aunt P.
> says
> something along the lines of "Our parents where thrilled when Lilly
> got her
> letter, 'Oh look, we have a witch in the family'" (something along
> those
> lines, I don't have the book with me..) so apparently they weren't'
> that
> surprised. Wouldn't you normally be a little shocked if you found out
> your
> daughter was a witch? Especially if you had no idea that the WW
> exsisted?
> Please correct me if I am completely off on this matter, but it just
> seemed
> odd to me
> 
> Summer
> 


Its very possible that many of those muggles who have a wizard or witch
in their family do know about the WW. Its not like they would go tell
anyone, noone would believe them anyways. Possible that Lilly's
grandparents were squibs or something and it skipped a few generations? 
You always hear about someone who claims their great grandmother had
'the gift' or something like that.  Maybe Lilly's parents were
'SF/Fantasy fans' and were weird by muggle standards anyways?  Not ALL
muggles fear magic... Some, like Wiccans and other pagans pretend to
have real magic, poor things. They even claim to talk to gods and
goddesses on a first name basis. ;)

Its possible that Lilly didn't have 'mundane' parents...too bad her
sister turned out to be a mundane (ie. a 'normal' person, by society's
standards)

Jazmyn