The Wizarding World: Expulsion

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 127622


"rockstar064" <soulbrotha at m...> wrote:

> I have an issue that has been bugging me, and I would appreciate 
> your views. I do not understand why, in the Wizarding World, 
> expulsion from school results in a lifetime ban from using magic. I 
> can understand children being banned from doing magic until they are 
> of age; however, once they are of age, shouldn't they be able to do 
> magic? It just makes no sense to me.

Meri Now: I think the main reason for this (keeping untrained wizards 
from doing magic) is that they don't want people who cannot fully 
control their magic abilities or do not know how to use them 
appropriately running around casting spells and such. The poor 
obliviators from the MoM seem to have quite enough on their hands to 
deal with without having to deal with untrained wizards casting spells 
that they don't fully understand. Just look at the stuff Harry did 
before he got to Hogwarts: flying leaps to the school kitchens, 
turning wigs blue, making glass vannish. Just imagine what a partially 
trained wizard could pull off. 

This is, of course, assuming that this situation even exists. Hagrid 
is the only one at Hogwarts who we know was expelled and yes, he had 
his wand broken but then again at the time he was accused of a crime 
(Moanining Mytrle's murder)that would have warrented a much more 
severe punnishment in the RW. Without DD to vouch for him Hagrid might 
have ended up in Azkaban, and I'm not sure if his wand was broken 
because he was expelled or because he was accused of a serious crime. 

Meri - wondering if this situation is something akin to why the Jedi 
in Star Wars were so reluctant to take on Anakin for a trainee: he was 
too old to truly come into the fold and the misuse of his power was a 
bigger concern...