[HPforGrownups] Re: Why are *all* Muggles so tolerant of their wizard chi...

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 47345



Darkness Falls wrote:
> 
> >In a message dated 11/27/02 2:15:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >ra_1013 at yahoo.com writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> 
> I say just memory charm the muggles who can't keep their traps shut. I
> mean
> who would want to endanger their own child be revealing the wizarding
> world.
> 
> --"Darkness Falls"

Like.. WHO would believe them?  You run out and tell everyone about a
secret world of wizards and see if anyone believes you?  It takes a wand
to even get into Diagon Alley.  You got one?  How would you prove
anything?  And how about the fact that people only believe what they
want to believe. Even if you got your kid to do magic in front of
someone, they would explain it away as something else.  The MOM is in
fact more paranoid then it even needs to be..

Jazmyn