[HPforGrownups] HP and the democratic equilibrium(Re: Umbridge, brooms and DEs)

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 87137


Derek:

At some point, she breaks some rules and crosses the school's
administrator.  For her actions, she is kicked out of the school
orchestra.  Fine.  It's the school's right to determine who can
participate in extra-curricular activities.  However, the
administrator also somehow imagines he has the right to *take her
violin away!*

K
As long as he/she was planning on giving it back at the end of term (or
whenever the student went home) I wouldn't have a problem with it. If she
wants to keep it from being confiscated for any reason she shouldn't have
taken it to the school in the first place.

*shrugs*

Not really seeing the problem - Harry (and other students) are allowed to
bring the brooms to school at the discretion of the school (they're
forbidden for first years after all so the school is granting them a
privilege - the use of their own brooms). Since being allowed to have the
broom at school is a privilege granted by the school it is within the rights
of the school (as represented by Umbridge unfortunately in this instance) to
revoke that privilege.

K