[HPforGrownups] Hate crimes (was Re: muggle baiting vs. muggle torture)

Jordan Abel random832 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 22 06:03:59 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 155823

> Pippin:
> What is illegal is for wizards to play magical pranks on
> Muggles, and as far as we know, the name of that crime is  Muggle-
> baiting. . Of course there has to be intent, but the
> only intent established in canon is to play a prank on Muggles,
> not to hate them, IMO.

The question is, for what purposes are muggle relatives of wizards who
know about magic considered "muggles" - clearly they're not in at
least one case, that of the international statute of wizarding
secrecy. Might there be more?

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Random832







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