[HPforGrownups] website SPOILERS . Who goes to Hogwarts

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 119756

What really interests me on this point is how many muggle families
decide not to let their kids go to Hogwarts? Or maybe the better
question: how many muggle families do? Because the question of money
and tuition aside, muggle parents IMO are more likely to decide
against Hogwarts than wizarding ones. I can't imagine there would be
many willing to send their kids to a boarding school they didn't even
know existed and one they cannot inspect for themselves.

And then, what happened to such kids? Do they go through life with
glass exploding around them when they're angry and other unexplainable
things happening and just shrugging it off?

It makes me think of Terry Goodkind's Sword Of Truth series (of which
I only read a couple of books) where wizards who weren't trained to
use their power were in danger of dying. Actually, it works similarly
in Robert Jordan's Wheel Of Time (similarities between SoT and WoT?
Wow, you don't say). So I wonder what is JKR's take on it. We do know
that magic manifests itself through subconscious desires whether or
not the person knows they're magical, but from what we've seen in book
one it not only doesn't threaten the witch or wizard's life, it
usually acts to save it.

One last question: if a muggle-born was not sent to Hogwarts, but upon
becoming an adult made a conscious choice to live in the wizarding
rather than muggle world, would they be able to?

 I wonder what are the chances of JKR ever answering any of that...

Alina.