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

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 87139




> > 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.
>
Laura
> Wait.  By that reasoning, you could say the same thing about *anything*
> a student brings to school, right down to their *clothing*!

K

Not if you read the whole argument I made. My point was that being allowed
to have a broom at school (and similarly an instrument) as opposed to haing
to use the school version is a privilege - and pricileges can be withdrawn
at any time *especially* as a punishment. Being allowed to have a broom at
school is to me similar to being allowed to go to Hogsmeade or being allowed
to play in the quidditch team and as such not a right but rather a privilege
granted by the school and subject to being withdrawn by the school if they
feel like it. Now I'm not saying that the punishment was fair or in
proportion to the 'crime' - just that it was within the rights of the school
staff.

Whether the broom was related to what he was being punished for is
irrelevant, while it is a nice touch, punishments don't have to fit the
crime, just you know punish. The Forbidden Forest had nothing to do with the
Trio and Draco's punishment in the first year but they were sent into it
with Hagrid as punishment.

K