Morality and Harry Potter

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 191902


> Bart:
>      A certain level of unfairness becomes unbelievable; if one set of 
> students can practice over the summer, and the other can't, it would 
> evidence itself on the WW students doing much better than the MB 
> students, yet, by all evidence given in the book, there is no such 
> problem. Also, especially with the disdain of muggles and doing things 
> the muggle way apparent in the WW, prohibiting use of magic outside of 
> school just seems unnatural.
>

Pippin:
I think you've misunderstood the law. None of the underage students are supposed to practice magic outside of Hogwarts whether they live in Muggle homes or wizarding ones, on pain of expulsion.  Although the nature of The Trace is such that underage students *could* practice magic at home with their parent's  connivance, they aren't supposed to. Apparently most of the parents approve of this rule, since we don't hear them complaining about it. 

There's no problem with  practical assignments because they're not given over the summer: Harry's homework consists of essays, not spellwork. In PoA  he is  worried about falling behind, not because his wand is locked away but because all of his books are as well. 

Wizard world kids would be expected to be out of practice when they got back to school just like Muggleborn ones, and if they weren't it would probably arouse suspicion. There are always a few students like Tom Riddle and the Twins who can find their way around any law on the books, but they are a  small minority. 

Pippin