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

[Daniel R. Tobias]

No: HPFGUIDX 49680

"Shaun Hately" <drednort at alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> I wonder though... what would Hogwarts do in a case where a child wants to attend - but 
> their Muggle parents don't want to allow it. I really wonder, with what we have seen of 
> the Wizarding world, if they don't just take the child anyway. The average Wizard seems 
> to have a fairly low opinion - patronising - of Muggles - I could see them as assuming 
> they know best.

On the other hand, permission slips from parents/guardians were 
required for student trips to Hogsmeade, and no exception was made 
for those with Muggle parent/guardians, such as Harry, despite their 
sometime lack of understanding and sympathy.  This seems to indicate 
that some deference was given to the rights of the legal guardian of 
a child.  On the other hand, at the end of the third book Sirius gave 
Harry a note in his own name, and indicated that Dumbledore would 
certainly accept it; Dumbledore tends to support the spirit of the 
law rather than the letter of it, and regards Sirius as having some 
moral rights regarding the upbringing of Harry due to being named 
godfather, even if in the wizarding world he's officially still an 
escaped convict, and in the muggle world the Dursleys are Harry's 
legal guardians.  The fact that Dumbledore didn't bend the rules 
during Harry's third year and allow him to go into town with the rest 
of the students may be more due to his concerns about Harry's safety 
with Sirius at large (and still believed at that point, even by 
Dumbledore, to be a danger) than to legalism alone.


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