Slytherin's behavior at the GoF final feast (was Re: Dumbledore's awarding of points PS/SS)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57102

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, heidi tandy <heidit at n...> wrote:
> 
> --- darrin_burnett <bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> > 
> > Tell me, when the coach asked you to foul, did you
> > just wrap the 
> > person up to get the foul called or did you hit the
> > person over the 
> > head and then try to tell the ref you thought the
> > player's head was 
> > the ball? My guess is the first, since basketball
> > has the technical 
> > foul rule, so if you get too out-of-hand, you won't
> > get the ball back.
> > 
> 
> You're applying Muggle "rules" and concepts of injury
> to the wizarding world, which is a little unfair to
> do, as they clearly don't and can't see injuries to
> things like arms in the same way we do. I mean, if you
> knew that breaking someone's arm would result in a few
> unplesant minutes with some medicine, would you have
> as much of a compunction against breaking it, or would
> it be considered, in your world, to be closer to the
> equal of a bruise? 
> 


I was responding to a post about basketball, by the way. So, the 
introduction of Muggle rules is hardly mine. I was responding to it. 

And although a broken arm is easier to heal, it still hurts, doesn't 
it? There is no evidence that it hurts only as much as a bruise does. 
Harry really is in severe pain when he gets his arm broken, as is Ron 
when he breaks his leg, so I find the idea of "well, he can get it 
healed quickly, so let's beat the crap out of him" a bit loathsome.

Assault is assault, whether the person heals quickly or not. So, 
yeah, I'd have some compunction about inflicting a painful injury on 
someone.

And anyway, Harry fell off his broom, from a height of 50 feet, the 
first time the Dementors made their appearance. Dumbledore kept him 
from hitting the ground. Notwithstanding Neville's bouncing, 
Dumbledore obviously felt he needed to save Harry from something.

Malfoy and his crew, including a seventh year who damn well ought to 
know better, were clearly trying to replicate that "happy" event.

Darrin
-- Bet Harry was just a mean old bully for siccing a Patronus on poor 
old ickle Drackykins