Protecting Students

[AmanitaMuscaria]

No: HPFGUIDX 189394



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, No Limberger <no.limberger at ...> wrote:
>
> >AmanitaMuscaria wrote:
> >Not just Hogwarts; the wizarding world is dangerous. Lupin gets bitten as a
> child, and
> >he is pretty much banished from society at a stroke - if Dumbledore hadn't
> accepted
> >him at the school, his life would have been very limited. Neville is
> dangled out of windows
> >'to bring his magic on' - no one seems at all concerned that if he wasn't
> magical, he
> >would have died; but then, he would have been a squib, and beneath
> everyone's
> >consideration. Harry is left with abusive relatives because it serves to
> keep him alive.
> >He gets Mrs. Figg as a guard, who has no magic, and no way of protecting
> him should,
> >say, a Dementor be set upon him as a small child.
> 
> No.Limberger responds:
> Anyone bitten by a werewolf is going to be ostracized, whether child or
> adult and
> for a very simple reason: people don't want to become werewolves.

AM now - Well, they wouldn't become werewolves, except for around full moon, but that doesn't seem to be the fear; it just seems to be a general fear. We're not actually told what happens when Fenrir bites children when it's not full moon, and no other werewolf is stated to bite when not in werewolf mode.
> I don't recall
> reading that about Neville, but it seems unlikely that he would have been
> allowed
> to be severely injured.
AM now - Uncle Algie dangled Neville out of the upstairs window, then dropped him when he was distracted; Neville bounced down the road, which pleased them all, as it meant he was a wizard. (PS Ch.7) I suspect it wouldn't have gone so well if Neville had been a squib.
 
>Harry was left with his aunt & uncle because Dumbledore
> believed that he would be safer there, in spite of how his aunt & uncle
> would end
> up treating him. Harry, after all, had just survived an attempted murder on
> his life
> and not all of LV's followers had been found.

AM now - Indeed. And Hogwarts, The Burrow and the Quidditch World Cup, if nowhere else, certainly seem to be safe enough for Harry, even after Voldemort is resurrected, and Death Eaters are much more active. Little Whinging, on the other hand, is subject to a Dementor attack. Harry had to be at Privet Drive for the protections, and had to be mistreated for the story, but if you believe Voldemort is not finished, and if you believe your main chance of finally defeating Voldemort is Harry Potter, you don't leave him under the sole protection of an unknown spell, a family of Muggles who can't stand him, and a squib. Unless you're Dumbledore.