[HPforGrownups] Re: Thoughts about Racism in HP (LONG)

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 102391

| From: darrin_burnett
| Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:22 AM
| A question I've always wondered is. What if a Muggle family refuses
| to allow their child to go to Hogwarts? Maybe they are like the
| Dursleys, or maybe the father had 16 generations of his family go to
| Eton and just refuses to allow his son to go anywhere else?
|
| What do McGonagall and D-Dore do then? It would seem parents still
| have the right to keep their children from there, much the same way
| parents of a child who is 12 and scores 1600 on the SAT (a perfect
| score for a college aptitude test, for our international friends)
| don't HAVE to send that kid to college right away.

[Lee]:
I'm going to toss out another thought into this thread...something not quite
along the lines of racism, but certainly along the lines of discrimination.

What of a child, either pureblood or not, who has a physical or visual
impairment but is magical?  Can we get talking spell books, etc? Or would
such children be denied a proper education in the WW?  Would that child's
parents have to fight to get him/her into a wizarding school?

In RL, those of us who are blind or otherwise physically or visually
impaired have a real struggle in obtaining simple things like a decent
education...I've seen many times where blind people get professors who just
aren't a bit interested in teaching them.  I, myself, have seen job
discrimination; no matter how well I'm qualified, the employer would rather
hire a sighted person.

I can't help but wish that JKR would tackle a blind wizard being admitted to
Hogwarts.  I'm sure most of the profs would be great, but I have serious
doubts about Snape being willing to accommodate. :-)  Hmm--fodder for
fanfic, perhaps?  And if said student were a half-blood or
muggle-born...Ouch!

See...I warned ya! And I'll be really interested to read answers. :-)

Cheers,

Lee (Who'll probably end up in Hufflepuff...but that's okay...just Not
Slytherin!) :-)

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