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

[Taryn Kimel]

No: HPFGUIDX 49679

Peter the Couch Elf:
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?

Tess:
I'd guess there are probably plenty of Muggle parents who, when their 
children's school letters arrive, figure the whole thing is a joke 
and toss them (the letters, not the children) out the window.  In 
that case, we'd never hear about the "lost students" whose magical 
careers were over before they began.  (This assumes Hogwarts' single-
minded pursuit of Harry in PS/SS was a one-time extra effort to reach 
someone who was at once helpless to fend for himself and so obviously 
integral in the WW.)

Me:
I very much doubt that Hogwarts would just give up like that after one try. After all, magical ability that is untrained can become dangerous, because there is no knowledge of how to control things.

--Taryn

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