[HPforGrownups] Re: Why are *all* Muggles so tolerant of their wizard children?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47331



Andrea wrote:
> 

> 
> Well, I'd imagine there's basically a security measure in place.  If,
> as
> so many of us have postulated, the Muggle-born kids get a visit from
> an
> adult wizard to explain things to them, then any parents who
> completely
> freak out about the wizarding world will promptly get memory charmed!
> ;)
> One would hope, of course, that the charm is simply to wipe out all
> memory
> of the wizarding world and the child will go on to Eton or where ever
> and
> live a Muggle life.  However, a slightly darker version might have the
> Muggle parents' objections Obliviated and their being "convinced" that
> magic is the way to go.  Either way, you wind up with parents who
> won't be
> spreading the word about the wizarding world.
> 
> Andrea
> 

I would think that anyone with wizards in their family would know they
had them and that info passed down. Muggles don't spontaneously produce
wizard kids, they had to inherit those magical genes from somewhere.
Possibly both parents would have to carry the 'recessive' gene as well,
assuming its a recessive gene as it skips generations sometimes. So even
if one parent was adopted/fostered/orphaned and didn't know about having
wizarding in their bloodlines, its likely the other one might know. 
Lilly's parents obviously both knew about the WW to be so happy to have
had a child with magic, possibly one or both being squibs themselves
with one or more parents or grandparents who was a wizard..  We don't
know that the purebloods don't consider a squib to be a 'muggle' far as
the offspring are concerned. Non-magical parents are non-magical parents
after all, regardless for the reason they are non-magical.  Why do you
think Filch is so paranoid about his lack of magic?  

You think some magical kids born of muggle parents have is rough,
imagine being a squib born in the Malfoy family!

I don't see them wiping memories over this. Otherwise they would adopt
squib children out to muggle parents so they never knew and would be so
elitist about it, that ONLY magical people could know about the WW.  A
number of muggles do in fact know about it and keep it secret or they
keep quiet about it cause they would not want to be locked up as
loonies.  There are also the muggles who know nothing about the WW and
pretend they have magic.. ie Wiccans and other pagans who burn incense,
do rituals and fool themselves into believing they did magic. One
wonders that the WW wizards make of them? Bunch of loonie muggles who
think they are wizards. Real magic would scare them to death! ;)

Jazmyn