Wizard morals, was Re: werewolf joke!!

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 96114


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> AmanitaMuscaria now - 
There seems, as has been commented before, a 
> very odd morality working (or not) in the wizard world.
>snip> 
Tom's 'unmasking' of Hagrid as 'The Heir of Slytherin' leads to 
> Hagrid's expulsion and hire as gamekeeper at Hogwarts - the 
Ministry > who believed Tom thought he'd KILLED a girl, for heaven's 
sake - and > what about her parents?
> OK, wizards obviously are somewhat more durable than muggles - 
> dropping a child out of a window means the child bounces down the 
> street, but they obviously can get hurt and die.
> So, what sort of morality do wizards subscribe to?


Potioncat:
I agree with you, the morality seems to be different.  

But in Hagrid's case involves a cover-up.
Tom tells us in  CoS "The Very Secret Diary" p241 that Dippet was 
ashamed of what happened and forbade him to tell anyone.  Hagrid was 
expelled because Aragog attacked several students. (Of course it 
didn't.) Myrtle's death was called a freak accident.

Fudge must have known something though for him to come after Hagrid 
concerning the Chamber some 50 years later.