[HPforGrownups] Re: Coming of age in the WW

[Przemyslaw Plaskowicki]

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Shaun Hately wrote:

>On 11 Dec 2003 at 21:51, Geoff Bannister wrote:
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>>Geoff:
>>This reminds me of something that has really annoyed me whenever I 
>>read it.
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>>Umbridge told Harry and Co that they were banned from playing 
>>Quidditch ever again. That, of course, could only apply to Hogwarts. 
>>Presumably what she meant was ever again at the school.
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>>But my main irritation is the woman's arrogance in confiscating the 
>>brooms. Harry's broom is a valuable possession and is his own 
>>personal property; she has no right to remove it. Perhaps if he had 
>>felt more secure, he might have remonstrated with her. Whenever I 
>>read that section, I find myself echoing Hermione's words - "You hag, 
>>you evil hag", "That foul, lying, twisting old gargoyle", (words she 
>>used to describe the "truly delightful woman" after her inspection of 
>>Hagrid if you've lost the quote).
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>I don't know.. I had my own personal valuable property confiscated while I was at 
>school, on a couple of occasions - and it never even would have occurred to me 
>to protest about it. As far as I was concerned, the teacher had absolutely every 
>right to confiscate it, and I don't find it at all surprising that Harry would have a 
>similar attitude.
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I disagree. Technically teacher by confiscating anything from pupil 
commits a crime. Law specifically says what, when and by whom can be 
confiscated, and as far as I know there is no such law that permits 
teachers function as a law enforcement officers. Once, I successfully 
opposed my teacher when she confiscated my newspaper which I was reading 
under the table, saying that she has no authority to do so.

But then again, I live in Poland which does not have common law system 
like UK and US ;-).



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Przemyslaw 'Pshemekan' Plaskowicki
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. (Francis Quarles)