Real child abuse

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 145804


> > Betsy Hp:
> > I'm really uncomfortable with that sort of philosophy.  Rather 
than 
> > using rules fairly applied to everybody, some rules are made for 
one 
> > sort of person and other rules are made for another sort.  
> 
> Amiable Dorsai:
> But isn't that why the scene is so satisfying?  The perception--
ours,
> Harry's, Ron's, and especially Draco's--that there *are* two sets 
of
> rules: one for Malfoys and another for everyone else?  If he did 
not
> feel himself above the rules that ordinary mortals must obey, would
> Draco have attacked Harry so publicly?  And isn't Draco's 
comeuppance
> all the more sweet for that?

Magpie:

Err...well, yes as a supporter of Pureblood superiority Draco would 
support one rule for the "right sort" and one rule for everyone 
else, but I don't know where Harry and Ron would get the perception 
that Malfoy considers himself to have special rules for himself at 
school. Fanon!Draco may consider himself above mere mortals but 
canon!Draco has always been pretty much an ordinary student subject 
to detentions, punishments and rules. Snape certainly favors him 
personally, and later on he is a Prefect (which confers special 
priviledges) and a member of the IS (which gives him temporary 
powers over other students) but he doesn't usually have any sort of 
special status.  He can always count on Snape to take a Slytherin's 
side, but nobody else in the school would do that.

Malfoy would no doubt like to have special priviledges and tries to 
get away with stuff as much as he can, but I can't imagine why 
anyone in the school would see what Moody is doing as remarkable 
because nobody's ever dared discipline Malfoy before.  McGonagall 
would have dragged him off by the ear, who knows how Hagrid would 
have reacted.  Harry's probably found himself on the receiving end 
of more bended rules than Malfoy has under normal circumstances, to 
the casual observer.  Usually Draco is specifically described as 
trying to avoid being caught doing something against the rules.  He 
throws the hex openly at Harry here because angry and acting on 
impulse.  Hexes thrown in the hallways aren't a rare thing in canon.

-m