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

[gingersnape1966 <gingersnape1966@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49683

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Peter Shea <bebche2 at y...> wrote:

> 
> 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? 

me:  Neville mentioned that he had "bounced" when falling from a 
window, thus convincing his relieved family that he was magical 
enough to attend Hogwarts.  Harry made odd things happen before he 
knew he was a wizard.  

I would assume these are common among young wizards.  The Muggle 
parents have probably been wondering about their children, either 
attributing unusual happenings to good luck or exceptional 
intelligence, or something else, depending on how the magical 
abilities manifested themselves.  They might even be relieved that 
there is an explanation for them.   

Still waiting for my letter at age 36, Ginger