Hate crimes (was ... uh, I forget, surely it was something....)

[Ken Hutchinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 155826

> Ceridwen wrote:
> 
> And adding: Even after the Marge incident, the magical Obliviator 
> S.W.A.T. team came out, deflated Marge, and modified Muggle memories 
> while Harry had an interview with Fudge, who was, at the time, trying 
> to get on Harry's good side so discounted what had been done.
> 

Ken:

Oh, yeah, obliviating, that is what I was trying to remember.

For me to spend so much time discussing the ton tongue toffee prank
on a spoiled bully who has had several years to wrap his pea brain 
around the fact that his live in cousin is a wizard and who's own 
mother should have helped him deal with this his entire life is to
strain at a gnat while swallowing the camel that is the practice of 
obliviation. I don't hear anyone who is so bent out of shape by this
"muggle-baiting" candy expressing any outrage at this staple of
the wizarding world that is a million times worse.

Is there anything more precious to you than your experiences, your
memories, your intellect? Is it not the human mind, more than anything
else, that sets us apart from other animals? By what right does the WW
tamper with the minds of muggles? How dare Arthur berate his sons
for a prank when he condones this kind on attack on those most 
precious minds of his fellow human beings on a daily basis?

Magical or not, a prank is just a prank. The WW's attitude towards 
muggles is HORRIBLE, from top to bottom. It isn't just Death Eaters,
it is EVERYONE! Even DD is infected by it. Even Hermione is adopting
it. This concern over the toffee is an example of "zero tolerance" 
thinking. Don't you see what it has done to you, and does to you in
the real world too? It focuses your mind so strongly on tiny details
that you lose sight of the big picture.

If ton tongue toffees really existed the company that made them would
also make a fortune selling them to boys Dudley's age who would gladly
eat them themselves as often as they used them to prank someone 
else. The toffee prank is not an incident worthy of our consideration,
not when the WW maintains its culture by raping and pillaging the 
minds of innocent muggles. *THAT* is the skeleton hidden in the WW's
closet. This whole notion that I know better than you what is good for
you so I am going to modify your memory so that you don't remember
anything inconvenient, err, I mean unpleasant, is totally abhorrent to 
me. It is monstrous really.

I'm sorry, very, very sorry but we muggles have to deal with so many 
unpleasant facts of life and have done so with great resilience for 
millenia. I need a wizards help to deal with the emotional pain of a 
shrinking key or a backed up toilet? The notion that I might pester
you a bit too often for help repairing a broken glass is your excuse
for assulting my mind?

A ton tongue toffee? Heck, I'd eat one of those myself if I needed a 
good laugh or thought someone else did! The Twins are the least of 
the muggle's problems and if they live I bet they expand their joke
shop business into the muggle world with great success.

Ken