Whose side are we on?? :was: Arthur right or not?

[Joe]

No: HPFGUIDX 156140

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <rdoliver30 at ...> 
wrote:
> No, I want her to say "That was a horrible and unforgivable thing
> that was done to you, Harry.  I'm truly sorry I didn't handle the
> situation better."  In other words, I want her to act in a
> responsible matter befitting a human being, not a vile and ignoble
> manner (to use words Ceridwen suggested) that befits only someone
> who seemingly has no sorrow or feeling of shame for one of her
> students being physically abused.
> 
> Yet another example where authority figures seem to approve of 
Harry
> being abused.  Or where at the very least their silence and failure
> to denounce the abuse tacitly signal that they do not take it
> seriously.
> 

Joe:

Given JKR's work for Amnesty International might this be a metaphor 
for authority figures in leading nations ignoring and therefore 
giving tacit support for abuse of the powerless in many parts of the 
world? 

Joe who thinks that Jo may be salting the cannon with topics that 
could lead to real debate of issues long ignored by the economically 
well off (SPEW/immigrant workers' rights, etc.)