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

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 49689

> From: Heleen Greenwald [mailto:Heleen at ptdprolog.net]
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:15 PM
> To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: If Muggles are unaware of Wizards, why
> do they agree to send their kids to Wizarding schools?
>
>
>   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?
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> I don't think Muggles are totally protected from knowledge of the
> Wizard world.  There are bits and pieces in the books which seem
> to intimate that some Muggles know *something*....
> Phillipa

I have always thought that Hogwart's uses other Muggle parents of students
to meet with parents when they get their first letter. It's not too far a
stretch to imagine the Grangers, for example, to have met with the Creeveys
when Colin first got his letter.

Suzanne