Slytherins: selfish, not evil + Ariana raped?

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 173348

> > From Erin Ridgeway:
> > On another note: did anyone else read the Muggle torture of
> > Ariana as rape? Or do I just like my backstories as twisted
> > as possible?
>
> Bart:
> A better question: did anybody NOT read it that way?
>
> As adults (note the name of the group), we are much more
> knowledgeable about what sort of attack some adults are capable of > on children. And we know, from news accounts and otherwise, how
> children react to certain kinds of attacks.


Jack-A-Roe:
No, I never thought she was raped.

"When my sister was six years old, she was attacked, set upon by
three Muggle boys. They'd seen her doing magic, spying through the
back garden hedge: She was a kid, she couldn;t control it, no witch
or wizard can at that age. What they saw scared them, I expect. They
forced their way through the hedge, and when she couldn't show them
the trick, they got a bit carried away trying to stop the little
freak doing it."

It sounds alot more like they beat her than they raped her. Why would
someone who is afraid of a child decide to rape them? Beating is so
much easier.