[HPforGrownups] Re: Law, Human Rights and democracy in the Wizarding World

[Jenett]

No: HPFGUIDX 31094

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, lenmachine wrote:
> I don't have GoF on me either, but I don't think that a failure to 
> mention something in passing counts as "evidence" suggesting that the 
> thing therefore does not exist. (Can we get a L.O.O.N ruling on this 
> one ? :-) )
> 
> Anyway, I'm a lawyer (well, OK, an unemployed one), and unless I'm 
> talking about something in particular, I rarely mention the civil 
> system "in passing." :-)

The passage I'm thinking of *is* a place where it'd be appropriate to 
mention it if it existed as an option, though. It's where Fred and George 
finally get forced to explain why they're trying to track down Bagman, and 
what the whole situation is. 

They go through the whole "We tried this, and we tried that, and we can't 
get this to work..." but they don't, as I recall, mention anything formal 
(like a civil court system) even to discard it as an option for some other 
reason. (like "Mom would find out and she'd be angry we gambled.")

It struck me as odd even the first time I read it, which is part of why it 
stuck in my head. I can check the actual passage tonight, though. I'd have 
expected someone in the US, for example, to say "I don't want to deal with 
the bother of going through civil court" or something like that, but at 
least to acknowledge it as an option. 

-Jenett