Cutting Characters (esp. RL) Slack (WAS Hagrid, Moody and Violent Responses)

[gypaetus16]

No: HPFGUIDX 34150

 Umm, dear sweet Lupin says that his Hogwarts escapades as a 
> werewolf resulted in a lot of near misses, and that the thought 
> that he might have bitten somebody still haunts him. Every time 
> he left the shack, he  became a menace to human life, and he 
> continued to do this even after he became aware of it. That's 
> more than carelessness. The people he threatened must have 
> been terrified. If he thought scaring innocent people was just part 
> of the fun, he's no better than the DE's at the World Cup, IMO.
> 
> Pippin


When Remus undertook his "Hogwarts escapades" he was young and stupid, 
just as a lot of us are young and stupid in this age. Have a look on 
our own muggle newspapers. A number of crimes are comitted by 
youngsters at the age between 13 and 16. This should not be an excuse 
for what they do but you have to handle a crime comitted by a child in 
a different way than one, comitted by a grownup  (at least in civilised 
countries it should be done!!). I do not believe that Remus was 
careless when he became older. In his Hogwarts days he had friends for 
the first time in his life, who were supporting him and running with 
him in the pack. So he and also his friends felt strong and nothing 
could hurt them - stupid but very human.
I do not believe that real Death Eaters are between 13 and 16 or 17 
years of age, but older and well trained to torture, humiliate and kill 
all those people and wizards, who are not fitting to their horror 
regime.

Gabriele