Muggle-centric views of abuse

[mcjuels]

No: HPFGUIDX 144084

As far as I know every member of this list is a muggle.  
Therefore, any views we have of the Wizarding World are viewed 
through the lens of muggledom.  When we look at the treatment 
of students at the hands of Hagrid, Snape, Lockhart, etc, we 
can agree that we would be horrified if these were our children.

Children growing up in the wizarding world are growing up in a 
very dangerous place.  They need to be exposed to danger in order 
to learn to survive it.  Fortunately, these children are quite 
hardy and are not permanently harmed by attacks from hippogriffs 
or rogue bludgers.  When students are injured, they go to the 
hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey sorts them out.  These injuries 
seldom require the parents to be summoned.  My sense is that 
parents of Hogwarts students expect that they will sustain 
injuries while at school.  Molly Weasley did not come to Hogwarts 
when Ron's leg was broken at the end of his third year.  She did 
come when he had been poisoned.  

The hippogriff incident did not seriously injure Draco.  I am 
sure that Lucius would not have been sympathetic to his injury if 
he had not seen some gain in it for himself.  Madam Pomfrey had 
treated him and he was fine.  Draco was exaggerating the injury 
in order to get rid of Hagrid.  

When Lockhart removed all the bones in Harry's arm, he was not 
rushed to St. Mungo's, he was treated with Skelegro at school.  
When students were petrified by the Basilisk, I assume their 
parents were notified, but felt it wasn't necessary to come to 
the school.  I think that parents expect their children to be 
tougher than muggle children.  They have magic.  

Am I the only muggle on this list to think that it is no big deal 
when students get injured?  When you live in a world with evil 
dark lords, dementors, dragons, trolls and other dangerous things, 
you can't get too upset because a hippogriff rips your arm open.  
Otherwise, you would go to pieces completely if you splinched 
yourself while apparating.

Now that I have had my say, I'll go back to lurking. 

"mcjuels"