Slytherins: selfish, not evil + Ariana raped?

[sk8maven]

No: HPFGUIDX 174351

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:
> Bart is right. The attack almost certainly takes place in the
> mid-19th century.
> 
> Dumbledore is something like 150 years old in the HP books.

Oops, my bad, I forgot that. {embarrassed face}

All the more reason why the Muggle boys would have picked up stones
and thrown them at Ariana. The 19th century was MUCH more familiar
with the Bible, and there are all those passages about stoning people
for this or that wrongdoing, plus the infamous "Thou shalt not suffer
a witch to live" (the King James was still the Generally Accepted
translation, for non-Catholics, at the time). It would have been just
about the first thing they thought of. :(

One good-sized stone to the side of the head and you'd have all the
ensuing consequences: concussion, probable skull fracture, brain
damage - apparently to some sector that is specifically involved in
controlling magical energies - and so on. Not to mention the emotional
trauma from being senselessly attacked, when she was too young to
understand any of it.

On a side note: it's interesting that we learn so much more about
Grindelwald in a few pages in DH than in all the six preceding books.
I wonder if JKR didn't really intend to bring him onstage, but he sort
of insisted on having his story told and properly concluded? (Any
author will tell you that characters have a way of taking over control
of their stories and insisting they be told *this* way instead of
*that* one.)

Maven