Hagrid and Draco

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 168712

> wynnleaf
> This was a rather fascinating and, it seems to me, revealing 
example 
> you gave.  I'm not sure if you really meant to do this, but you 
> appear to be drawing a comparison between people putting an 
> uninformed personal and negative opinion into a letter, signing 
> their name to it, and sending it out for the public to read it in 
> the newspaper, to an 11 year old child making some casual negative 
> remarks about a teacher.
> 
> I just don't see a kid making casually disparaging remarks about a 
> teacher as anywhere at all on the same level as an adult sending 
out 
> a written letter to the newspaper.


Alla:

Not at all, I just responded to RL comparison with  an example of 
what kind of things would annoy me in RL in saying bad things about 
people we never met, etc. I certainly do not consider them to be on 
the same level.

RW example is more serious to me, for sure, much more serious. It is 
more serious simply because Draco's remark is fictional and the other 
thing happened in RL, it is more serious to me, even if both things 
happened in RL, but Draco's remark is **enough** for me to start 
disliking him. That's all I am saying.


wynnleaf: 
> But if Draco's remarks are that seriously wrong, it amazes me that 
> Ron's remarks concerning Snape could be considered perfectly 
> acceptable.

Alla:

Where in my post I said that Ron's remarks are acceptable? In fact, I 
said something to the contrary.

Here is what I said:

"Ron's gossip turns out to be totally true, as far as I am concerned,
but he is also making a judgment about the person he never met. Not
good in my view."