Wrong-headed compassion (was Re: Harry Draco and bathroom)

[James Lyon]

No: HPFGUIDX 162732

Regarding the bathroom scene:
"...There was a loud bang and the bin behind Harry exploded; Harry  
attempted a Leg-Locker Curse that backfired off the wall behind  
Malfoy's ear and smashed the cistern beneath Moaning Myrtle, who  
screamed loudly; water poured everywhere and Harry slipped as Malfoy,  
his face contorted, cried, "Cruci —"
  "SECTUMSEMPRA!" bellowed Harry from the floor, waving his wand  
wildly."

The follow-up to this scene really shows how incompetent DoubleDumb  
is. He never tried to get all the facts of the situation, just  
instantly blamed Harry for over-reacting. Unless there are several  
other curses that Harry knows that begin with Cruci, Harry responded  
in a very appropriate way.

Sectumsempra was condemned in this case because Harry did not know  
the effects (that Snape had previously used it on another student  
seems to have not affected DoubleDumb at all); however, it was still  
appropriate against an unforgiveable.

So we let someone who cast or tried to cast an unforgiveable off the  
hook and hold them blameless and punish the other for self-defense.

I still say that, starting with the hiding of a baby for a day and  
then just dropping it off on someone's doorstep and leaving the child  
for 10 years, DoubleDumb has never done anything that really  
supported or helped Harry. If Harry was so important, then he should  
have adopted him himself and retired from the headmastership (where  
his bungling and inattention had already dragged the school down with  
a child-abusive potions teacher, an incompetent divination teacher,  
and a useless history professor (not sure if the DADA position was  
also useless but the odds are that it was) and protected and  
apprenticed Harry. I know that JKR made the path that DoubleDumb  
followed, but it is still a criminally negligent one that included  
kidnapping and forced imprisonment of a minor.

Try to picture all the things that DoubleDumb did to Harry and think  
about if you neighbor did the same sort of things to a baby. Too many  
people (both in the WW and the RW) allow DoubleDumb to get away with  
child abuse based solely on the fact the Harry survived (if you want  
to call that survival--I, personally, would think that death would  
have been kinder at several points).

Just My Opinion

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