"Anyway, only a few families of Muggle-borns choose the second option; the rest send their kids to Hogwarts. And we wizard-raised magicals think smugly, "Of course the Muggle-borns choose Hogwarts.’ But here’s a quote from Headmistress Norwood: "Quite a few of us "Muggle-borns," back when we were eleven, if the Ministry had allowed our magic to be bound without also wiping the knowledge of magic from ourselves and our families, would have refused magical schooling and would have lost our magic, and the choice would have been easy. But we weren’t given such a choice, so here we are. Our magic is unimportant to us.’ "