Protection-Abuse / Patron-Client (was:re:Blood protection/ Dumbledore and Ha

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 158573

wynnleaf, who if she ever heard of an adult choking a child with two
hands, would immediately assume that the adult had a history of
physically abusing the child.


Tonks:

I wouldn't want you on the jury at my trial. ;-)

I would assume that the adult had lost control in that moment.  It may 
or may not be an indication of prior abuse. Things may have come to 
this. This may be the first time. There are parents who have never 
touched their child and who under stress and a kid acting out, go off 
the deep end and hit the kid for the first and only time in their 
relationship. 

Tonks_op