[HPforGrownups] If Muggles are unaware of Wizards, why do they agree to send their kids to Wizarding schools?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 49662



Peter Shea wrote:
> 
> My wife, a shrewd Bulgarian (and a supporter of the Vratsa Vultures
> Quidditch Team), looked up from reading GoF and posed the following
> questions:
> 
> If muggles are protected from knowledge of the wizarding world, why do
> muggle parents (like those of Hermione Granger and Lily Evans Potter)
> appear to accept so easily the existence of magic? And, more
> incredibly, why do they agree to the education of their children in
> wizarding schools where the children are prepared to live in
> clandestine wizard communities rather than participate in the wider
> muggle world? I quote Aunt Petunia in PS/SS:
> 
> "...for my mother and father,oh no, it was Lily this and Lily that,
> they were proud of having a witch in the family."
> 
> Peter the Couch Elf


Maybe Lily's parents were SF fans, Tolkien fans, AD&D players or even
Ren Fair groupies?  Yeah, normal, mundane muggles would be shaken up a
bit and not too accepting, but not all muggles are 'mundanes'.   There
are any number of people who would be delighted to find out that real
magic exists and their child is 'special' enough to be born a witch or
wizard.  

There's also the possibility that these muggle parents KNEW they had a
parent or grandparent who was a wizard or witch, thus it was not a
complete surprise.  I suspect Lily's parents were in fact squibs and had
magical parents or at least one magical parent between them so they knew
and were happy that Lily was born a witch.

Jazmyn