Hexing in the WW was :Re: Which Harry Potter character

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> Kemper now:
> Hey Potioncat, I'm unclear as to your meaning.  Are you saying that
> it's culturally accepted in the WW to hex people who annoy you? 

Alla:

Not Potioncat, not going answer for her, but really want to change the 
name of the thread now so I will say that absolutely it is much more 
culturally accepted in WW to decide the argument with the wand than in 
the Muggle world. Muggles do not have wands, while wands are pretty 
much extension of who the wizards are, yes?

I would say that to me it means they would use them even in the 
arguments, sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly, but often when people 
who do not have wands and magic (us, muggles) will think it is not 
acceptable to.

Kemper:
> If so, then I believe Umbridge would have been hexed more than a few
> times by her peers... especially from Snape. We don't see the good
> adults hexing because they don't like what someone has said.  It seems
> if that was acceptable we would have seen it in OP twixt Snape and 
Sirius.

Alla:

I had seen adults doing stuff with the wand when they did not like what 
was said, yes. I do not remember that Sirius or Remus for example 
attacked Snape in the Shrieking Shack, Sirius just begged him to listen.

Snape used his wand in response. No, I know it is not quite the same 
thing, however, I do not think had the similar argument taking place in 
the muggle world the use of the weapon would have been acceptable.