Hogwarts' special ed, etc.

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 12529

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ender_w" <ender_w at m...> wrote:

> Being a Christian (one of the ones who DOES like Harry Potter ...
> obviously), I believe that people with disabilities have them
> for a reason. 

I suspect that whether people believe that it is appropriate to 'fix' 
a disability has to do with how many generations that fix has been 
available. 

In my case, I am so near-sighted that nowadays (age 43), I can't 
READ without my glasses because my nose keeps me from holding the 
page close enough to my eyes, and even more astigmatic. I got my 
first pair of glasses on my tenth birthday and was ecstatic over such 
new discoveries as that streets had signs showing their names and 
busses had signs on the front showing their route number: bus drivers 
had always displayed impatience with me when I stuck my head in the 
bus and asked: "Is this the Number 9?"

In the Middle Ages, there were no useful corrective eyeglasses, so 
I would have been raised as a blind person. I would have learned to 
walk in unfamiliar places, not just my own home, as confidentally in 
total darkness as in light (which could be considered a useful skill), 
but the old tradition of raising blind children to be musicians as a 
way of earning their livings wouldn't have worked on me because I am 
also tone-deaf.

My point is that I much prefer having eyeglasses (a 'fix') to obeying 
God's plan that I should be a blind person. And if, God forbid, I 
were to go blind in later life from macular degeneration or something, 
but there was a new fiber-optic/microchip device to restore vision by 
replacing the damaged retina and optic nerve, I would BEG for it!