[HPforGrownups] Many responses (Molly's age, Hagrid, JKR stuff, unforgivables, etc) - also, Moody's Eye

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 174040

Random832 blessed us with this gem On 31/07/2007 11:42:

> It's a human assumption that working without payment makes them
> inferior.

An excellent point. By way of personal example, I'm an American living 
in Taiwan. In Taiwan it is common to hire southeast Asians (Malaysians, 
Indonesians, Vietnamese, Philipinos) as servants. We currently employ an 
Indonesian woman who has been with us about six months.

She doesn't work without pay, but she does work long hours. She's 
basically on duty from 8 in the morning to 10 or 11 at night, seven days 
a week. It's an issue I've struggled with. In favor of the system are 
the arguments that unemployment back home is high, she has no education, 
and the money she's making here, while fairly trivial to us (amounting 
to about $650 US a month), is a small fortune to her (in three years' 
time she can return home, buy a house and settle down with her family), 
which is why she chose to do this. We have also somewhat mollified her 
working conditions. Most household servants start work at 5:30 or 6:00. 
And she chose the option to work seven days for more pay.

So while, from our perspective it seems almost like indentured 
servitude, she doesn't seem at all dissatisfied with the conditions. 
Still doesn't mean I'm entirely comfortable with the situation, but it's 
hardly black and white.

I don't think the elf situation in the WW is cut and dried either; Ron 
had some good points to make.

> It would seem this is no run-of-the-mill magical eye.

"Run-of-the-mill magical eye"? You mean there ARE run-of-the-mill ones? 
Where can I get one?

Now this may just be because I'm an ex-teenage boy, but has anyone else 
considered the multitude of nefarious purposes such things as an 
invisibility cloak or a "magical eye" could be put to by a teenage boy 
with raging hormones? No girls' dormitory would be safe, I assure you....

CJ, Taiwan