[HPforGrownups] petrification and notifying parents

[Andrew MacIan]

No: HPFGUIDX 33500

Greetings from Andrew!

Some more differences between the US and Britain....

--- jrober4211 <midwife34 at aol.com> wrote:

{snip}

> Depending on whatever waivers I had to sign before
> enrolling my child 
> in Hogwarts, I might even consider a law suit. But
> no one ever sues 
> Dumbledore or Hogwarts, god knows they certainly
> would have several 
> cases against them by muggle legal standards.  
> 

Well, in the UK (based on what I read in the news, and
some discussions with British colleagues) starting a
suit and maintaining one is *far* harder than it is in
the US (whence you and I both write, if I read what
you write correctly).  Also, the reflex to lay suit is
mostly a US perversion of the legal system that is not
quite as wide-spread as some here think.

Thus, I would offer that the notion of suing Hogwarts
would be not be the first thing a British family would
think of doing, post-accident.


> I know, I know....it's just a book and the wizarding
> world doesn't 
> exist, but all this talk about realism vs. utopia
> and role models, 
> come on people, it's the minor details that make
> that whole discussion 
> a moot point at best.

With this point of literary theory I concur, but I
would also offer that Rowling is writing from a most
British perspective.  I serious doubt that the
American passion/plague of legal worship would ever
apply to/in her universe.

Cheers,

Drieux

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