The Evil Trio deserved hexes

[karywick <karenwickersham@ameritech.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51473

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants <rusalka at i...>" 
<rusalka at i...> wrote

> I think that merely drawing their wands and presenting a united 
> front stood a good chance of doing the trick.  

I reply:
You're right.  Drawing their wands might have done the trick but lets 
think back to ALL the abuse that HRH have put up with at the hands of 
Malfoy.  Others have listed them lately, so I won't.  And within a 
week or two before this, Harry had watched a fellow student die, 
watched all these nasty kids parents gather around LV to do more 
evil, fought LV and watched the leader of the MoM deny that LV has 
returned.  Ron and Hermione have also heard these stores and 
obeserved the troops gather for battle.  You can't deny that emotions 
are very, very high.       

  Therefore, your suggestion that they just draw their wands and 
wait, I feel is almost against human nature.  Malfoy. Crabbe and 
Goyle were begging for a fight.  They hexes that they threw in no way 
were inteded to do real damage or hurt.  They didn't mean to knock 
them out.  They probably would have been hexed in return like the 
previous incident with Hermione's teeth.  It was just the combination 
of the 3 along with the unexpected ones from the twins on the side in 
the hallway that caused the damage.

I do agree that the treatment of the knocked out and maybe injured 
evil trio is a bit callous. But isn' there some sort of war malady 
where normal caring individuals become shell shocked and immune due 
to what they have been through from the enemy.  Maybe that's the 
case?  

Kary