Consider the source was Re: A few random puzzles

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 117644


 
> > Potioncat:
> > In the medium which not be named, Dudley is stealing Harry's 
cake, 
> > but in canon, he's not doing anything.  Did Hagrid just hex him 
> > because he exists?  Are we seeing a long standing trend of 
bullying 
> > by Gryffindors?  No, really, what is going on here?  
> 
> Kneasy:
Kneasy wrote:
> Usual  WW stuff, I think.
> Despite all the thousands of posts on the subject since the site 
started, nobody has ever managed to demonstrate that the WW 
is 'fair' or moral in a way that is congruent with the Real World. 
In fact it manifestly isn't.
> Power counts. Over Muggles, Elves, other beings, other wizards. The
> competitors in the TWT are told "it's usual to cheat";  family 
arguments end up with the losers at St Mungo's having hexes or worse 
removed.

Potioncat:

Well, you have a good point.  However, consider who told Harry it is 
usual to cheat: Barty Crouch Jr. Was he telling the truth?  

As for family disturbances ending up with losers at St. Mungos, it 
happens at RW hospitals as well. Patients come in with injuries 
caused by RW versions of hexes administered by doting family 
members. I'd hate to think anyone would judge any of us by the local 
Emergency Room.  



> > 
> Kneasy:
snip
 You know that memory, the arguing couple
> and the child? That was chez Snape - Sevvy and Flo, plus Snape!Son.
> It was what happened to them that made him leave Voldy, you know.
> Terribly sad. Never got over it. Always quarreling, but some 
couples are like that;  but let anybody else poke their noses in and 
there's hell to pay.

Potioncat:
Whether or not the memory we saw was Little Severus and his parents, 
or Young Family Man Severus, I think you are on to something.  I'm 
sure there was a family that was destroyed by the Dark Lord himself.
>