Why are *all* Muggles so tolerant of their wizard children?

[karenemcee]

No: HPFGUIDX 47321

Dave wrote:
> 
> Maybe in such cases the MoM has to either: A) Magically "neuter" 
(so to
> speak) the child so he can live a normal Muggle life; or B) Find the
> child a foster wizarding family and cast a memory charm on the 
Muggle
> parents so they forget they ever had a kid at all.

I don't think either of these would work. First, IMHO the magical 
world would not want to give up a magical child, even if he/she is 
muggleborn (wasn't there something somewhere about the wizarding 
world being concerned about underpopulation? I could be totally wrong 
about that) and as someone else mentioned, there is no mention of 
anyone being "neutered," although this would be an obvious 
precaution/solution to some of the worst wizard-world criminals.

Second, I don't think it would be that easy to erase the existence of 
a 10-11 YO child in the muggle world. You'd have to get to not only 
the parents, but every person the child has had more than casual 
contact with, not to mention school, medical, and governmental 
records. This is on top of the gross inhumanity of kidnapping 
someone's child and obliviating the last decade of their lives, and 
the fact that the child would be forever cut off from his/her parents.

I too think that the Dursleys' reaction would actually be closer to 
reality for a lot of ordinary people, but to have a whole bunch of 
kids at Hogwarts with similarly chaotic stories would drain attention 
from the main plot, IMHO. Perhaps we'll see more hints of that sort 
of thing as the series continues.

Karen Mc (delurking/relurking)