Harry's Jaunt to Hogsmeade

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57400

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "fridwulfa" 
<rubeus_hagrid at w...> wrote:
> 
>   Eric wrote: 
> 
> 
>   Frankly, I can't see why Hogwarts students need parental/guardian 
permission
>   to go to Hogsmeade.  We're talking (as nearly as I can tell) 
about a fairly
>   typical Scottish village that happens to be all-magical-folk, NOT 
Patpong
>   Road, the Amsterdam red-light district, or the Reeperbahn.  (Not 
that
>   Hogwarts students would be interested in such goings-on...they're 
sweet,
>   pure, chaste, virginal, demure, and disgusted by such things.  At 
least,
>   that's the Party line and I'm sticking to it.)
> 
>   Me (Izaskun)
>   Well, I don't know how it works in England, but here, in Spain, 
where I studied, students need to get a written permission by the 
parent or guardian to leave the school building, that means that if 
you have an accident or something of the sort, when in an outing, 
theachers and school governors (or whatever they are called in 
English) cannot be held responsible for it. 
>


We're also talking about a place where alcohol is served, where there 
is a house thought to be haunted, and where there are all kinds of 
adults in and out, and perhaps not all of them have pure intentions.

It seems to me that Dumbledore and McGonagall could have been a TOUCH 
more sympathetic, considering what they know of Harry's homelife...

Heh... I'm opening myself up to the hypocrite chant here, but I have 
to say, I'd consider Harry less of a rulebreaker if he'd just forged 
the damn note. He certainly put up with 99 percent of the week with 
Aunt Marge and deserved, in my mind, to get Vernon's signature.

But that cloak? Yeah, that's more problematic. I can't explain it. 
Maybe someone else can get in my head and do so.

Darrin
-- Fix anything else you find in there while you're at it.