Something I'd like to see in the Books (hem hem)

[samnanya]

No: HPFGUIDX 83077

junediamanti
Is it me or is everyone just wand happy? There
seems to be the minimum of restraint on the entire
wizarding population <snip - {are you using child-safe
scissors?}>. 

Now there may well be considerable rules that are in
place and that we are just not aware of - and that's
quite possible because there's an awful lot of
information that we don't have about the WW yet, and 
that would hold up the story unbearably if JKR were
to constantly go on a major narrative digression to
sort this out for us.

All the same, I would have liked to see some ethical
training in the Hogwarts curriculum. and the differences
between curses, hexes and jinxes, etc etc.

samnanya
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Hem hem! Hem hem!
I mean {snicker} Hear hear! Hear hear!
What a GREAT read the HP series would be if she did that!
I can't think of a single child that wouldn't relish the
opportunity to learn all about wizard rules and regulations
at great length and full formality. Damn .... JKR should
make sure that Harry is put on Ritalin and take a course
on anger management for his own good!

Have JKR toss in a rule book for wand spells and the ethics
of using them! Turn HP into Moby Dick with a 150 description
of the whales and whaling and put everyone under the age of
12 into a total coma (but dont use an improperly applied or
unapproved stunning spell). Have those in power plaster
the walls with idiotic self serving but politically correct 
pronouncements! (Oops, Umbridge has already done that.)

Wand happy? Just reread the chapter on Umbridge's first
DADA class to see what that would turn into.... and with 
Harry on Ritalin, few would dare to fight back. Read
Hermione's righteous blibbering  about the mistreatment
of elves (wonder what she will say when Kreacher is stuffed
and mounted on the wall at 12 Grimmaud Place after Harry
toasts the little sucker for betraying Sirius) if you want
to feel righteous indignation. Of course the elves
ignore her.

The ethical training in the books is carefully woven into
the story, warts and all...... Let JKR continue to do the
job that she has done so well so far, keeping us awake and
entertained while doing so.

Samnanya
Who is going out and scribbling graffiti on politically
correct posters (both paper and people) .....

And, for the record, is still pissed that his daughter must
use a useless and dysfunctionally blunt compass to draw
curves in her Geometry class because some troglodyte
teacher at her school is afraid that someone might get
their eye put out if God {oops, cant mention her} forbid
students are taught to use a compass that actually works.

Hem hem! Hem hem!