Codes for abused kids (was Re: Can this be real? etc)

[annemehr]

> > >  Carolyn:
> 
>  the other sub-categories 3.17.2 to 3.17.4 to be sub-categories under
> > >  the Hogwarts codes. Having done this, I think any child abuse, 
> Snape-style would then get coded under 'Teaching Methods'.
> > >
> 
> > Barry replied:
> > hum. Don't want to make your life difficult, but why not leave it 
> open as to who/what is being abused?
> > 
> > I've been surprised that the House Elf Supporters Club haven't 
> appeared on my screen yet plus general Shock!Horror reaction at the 
> way other minorities are treated in the WW - even Muggles and 
> mudbloods. Add dear Dolly (by Centaurs) plus other odds and ends and 
> there's almost nobody who doesn't get maltreated (a slight 
> exaggeration, but I recently had a post where somebody was 
> fulminating about ill-treating dragons at the TWT "How dare they burn 
> their eyes like that!").Takes all sorts.
> 
> Carolyn:
> Twit - I didn't mean to imply that I assumed that Snape was in the 
> wrong. Clearly the nutters are getting to you. I just meant to refer 
> to criticisms of teaching methods used at Hogwarts and used him as an 
> example because of the recent heated debate on the topic.

Anne:
Actually, I think what Barry was getting at was that the two
categories may be too specific: parent/child abuse and teacher/student
abuse. I think he wants one category to cover *all* the possibilities:
these two *and* other types such as wizard/muggle and
wizard/magicalbeing, etc.  i.e. one very general category called
"abuse," maybe under characterisation?

Not that I'm voting either way here; obviously I'm rusty as far as
coding up goes...

Anne