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

[shinesse <dehavensangel@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49720

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

There have been a lot of great posts about this question. I just 
have a small addition to what has already been said. I myself am a 
parent. I love my daughter very much. If one day a letter came from 
a place like Hogwarts I would be very happy. There are several 
reasons why but the main reason is this: I would want her to have 
all the opportunities that I never had. 

I know a lot of other people would probably be apprehensive about 
sending their child away to Hogwarts. A very strange school that 
you've never heard of, your child is a witch or a wizard, etc. It's 
a lot for any person to take in at 1st. Then once the shock wears 
off I'm sure they would see this as a great opportunity. A chance 
for their child to do so much more with their life then the parent 
has ever imagined. Isn't that really ever parents dream? 

Just to add a small thing to the whole topic. I would be just like 
Lily and Petunia's parents. The only thing is that I wouldn't make 
my other child feel any less. That builds years of resentment that 
can't be taken back. Just look at the way Petunia talks about Lily. 
It's sad really that the two sisters didn't speak in years. She 
didn't even have a kind word about her once she found out that Lily 
was dead. What a shame. 

~dehavensangel~