But he's *faking*!

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10897

donna.rae at verizon.net wrote:

> We all know that Malfoy was pretending,
> but why couldn't the teachers see that?

I'm betting they could. This is the sort of thing one cannot prove, that
someone's lying about being in pain. How do you prove they're not in
pain? Plus, this is right in line with the fairly hands-off approach of
the Hogwarts administration. They seem much more willing than most
American adults I know of, to allow their charges to get a taste of life
as it will be--i.e., they don't try to make everything fair, they don't
sugarcoat that there are nasty folk out there, and they let students work
things out themselves.

--Amanda