Muggle Parents

[justcorbly]

No: HPFGUIDX 184059

> > lizzyben wrote:
> > While reading the books, I've often wondered what the wizards
> > would do if some stubborn Muggles parents refused to let their
> > child attend Hogwarts.

> Carol:
> ...I don't thing there's any danger that the parents
> of Muggle-borns, whether or not they send their kids
> to Hogwarts, will talk to other Muggles about it. We
> see the Muggle Prime Minister absolute certainty that
> he'll never speak of his contacts with the WW. He knows
> that no one would believe him and fears, IIRC, that he'd
> be considered insane. (Petunia must have had a similar
> fear when she told Vernon about her disgraceful relatives.)

justcorbly:

That's clearly JKR's intent, but she never directly addresses
the subject. I'd think that with their children being identified
as wizards and witches, then whipped off to Hogwarts, and with
the accompanying realization that magic is real and widespread,
that an awareness of Harry's world would be reasonably common
in Muggleland. (If that awareness is constantly obliterated by
wizards manipulating the minds of Muggles, then an entire new
set of questions is raised.)

The PM had considerably more riding on his silence than we would.
Indeed, many of us, on learning that magic was a working reality,
would seek to exploit it and its practitioners for our own benefit.
Some of us might even exploit our own children.

JKR had no reason to explore this in any depth (although I wish
she would have explored an adult wizard's relationship with his
or her Muggle parents), but I think Muggles must certainly have
had more knowledge of the world of magic than we might think.
In any case, it raises an interesting question: What would we
do if we learned both that a hidden magical world existed
alongside our world, and that some of our children had magical
powers?