[HPforGrownups] Bullying (was: SPOILERS.Re: JKR site update)

[annegirl11 at juno.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 115024

SS Susan said:
>that I think how she 
> answerws a RL, child of today on the topic of bullying is not at all 
> the same as Author Rowling might answer the question at Hogwarts.  

Well, I think what she'd say is that Harry SHOULD tell, but he won't. 

> But we really don't 
> see any reporting of bullying going on nor a mechanism for 
> assistance.

IMO, that's what house heads are for. Hogwarts is full of little kids
living away from their parents; heading a house can't just be an
administrative position. And there's an on-staff mediwitch who surely
would have healed Harry's hand and then told to DD about the psycho bitch
who hurt a student. And in normal circumstances, Umbridge would have her
fat can kicked out so fast .... Ahem. Went into fantasy land there for a
minute. 

What I mean is, while there isn't a specific guidance counsellor, no, but
Hermione and Ron's insistance that Harry tell someone about Umbridge
shows that even in the WW, students do have adults they can turn to.

As for how Harry would deal with another Draco? For one thing, I don't
think Harry really needs help there; he's holding his own against his
rivel. But, if things were to get intolerable, Harry could go to McG or
DD's office and say, "I'm having a problem, I need help," and they'd
listen. But Harry wouldn't because of that schoolboy code of silence and
self-reliance. It isn't the school's fault if the students don't make use
of the resources available to them.

> doesn't seem to 
> correspond w/ JKR's personal view of bullying in the RW.

It does in that JKR means to show that real world students should do what
Ron and Hermione *said* and not what Harry *did*. It's right there in the
chapter: Harry should talk to someone about Umbridge.


>  if Snape was in my basement o' 
> love, he'd only be there if he washed his hair first & used some 
> Crest Whitening Strips.  Then I'd give him what-for for picking on 
> Neville.

What two consenting adults do behind closed doors....

Aura

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