/Dumbledore was offered job of MoM, but refused knowing that real power lays in the only wizarding school in Britain./
Just like how Voldemort never tried to become Minister of Magic, but applied to become a professor at Hogwarts.
/Wizards hide from non magical humans so those inferior muggles cannot bother them for solutions of their problems. I can totally believe that the person, who wrote this series, also wrote the Tales of Beedle the Bard./
I wonder if that's a consequence of JKR not rereading her books, because, yes, the son in "The Wizard's Hopping Pot" pretty much agrees with Hagrid. We're supposed to look down on him for being selfish, but he has the same reason for not wanting to help his Muggle neighbors.
/How often had they complained how much Harry cost them to keep?”/
And yet nobody told them about the Potters' vault. Were they afraid that the Dursleys would spend it all on themselves instead of Harry?
/The way he tries to show off to a ratty looking grumpy boy/
Others have noted in earlier posts in this community that it really is strange how Draco is the only character who meets Harry and has a conversation with him without knowing who he is. In another story, this could be an indication that he and Harry will become friends, but instead, it's thrown out the window in their next meeting after Draco learns Harry's identity.
/Not a single witch or wizard Hagrid? Not even Sirius Black?/
And thus Hagrid poisons Harry's mind against Slytherin forever. This is what causes Harry to beg the Hat to not put him in Slytherin (rather than any "innate moral fiber" that Dumbledore and certain HP fans claim), this is what causes Harry to look down on Slytherins, and this is what cements Slytherin's role as the evil House. Just one comment by a character who is proven to be wrong by the existence of both Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew and yet everybody champions Hagrid's view.
/Hagrid only takes an 11 year old boy to the train that will take him to home. He doesn’t travel with him./
He's just following in the footsteps of his mentor, who, after learning what a disturbed and violent boy eleven-year-old Tom Riddle was and knowing that Tom knew nothing about the wizarding world, gave him some money and just let him wander off and try to find Diagon Alley all by himself.
That is what Jo wants us to think, but from perspective of people living in Potterverse that explanation doesn't work, because majority of WW don't know anything about Dursleys. Heck, in chapter 1 Albus' behaviour doesn't suggests that he might suspect Harry's guardians acting in such way. After observing how wizards interact with muggles and how they talk about them, I'm suspecting that the problem lays elsewhere: only people with magic are citizens of WW and in Potterverse wizards only respect citizens of WW thus muggles have no rights under WW's law. Case in point: it seems that only laws concerning interactions between wizards and muggles are secrecy laws. Nobody thinks twice about consequences of repeatedly wiping away someone's memories. Nobody bats eye about Neville's mistreatment during his childhood nor at distrusting Mrs. Figg's words during trial. If such important things are ignored why wizards should care about financial situation of somebody's muggle relative?
Just like how Voldemort never tried to become Minister of Magic, but applied to become a professor at Hogwarts.
/Wizards hide from non magical humans so those inferior muggles cannot bother them for solutions of their problems. I can totally believe that the person, who wrote this series, also wrote the Tales of Beedle the Bard./
I wonder if that's a consequence of JKR not rereading her books, because, yes, the son in "The Wizard's Hopping Pot" pretty much agrees with Hagrid. We're supposed to look down on him for being selfish, but he has the same reason for not wanting to help his Muggle neighbors.
/How often had they complained how much Harry cost them to keep?”/
And yet nobody told them about the Potters' vault. Were they afraid that the Dursleys would spend it all on themselves instead of Harry?
/The way he tries to show off to a ratty looking grumpy boy/
Others have noted in earlier posts in this community that it really is strange how Draco is the only character who meets Harry and has a conversation with him without knowing who he is. In another story, this could be an indication that he and Harry will become friends, but instead, it's thrown out the window in their next meeting after Draco learns Harry's identity.
/Not a single witch or wizard Hagrid? Not even Sirius Black?/
And thus Hagrid poisons Harry's mind against Slytherin forever. This is what causes Harry to beg the Hat to not put him in Slytherin (rather than any "innate moral fiber" that Dumbledore and certain HP fans claim), this is what causes Harry to look down on Slytherins, and this is what cements Slytherin's role as the evil House. Just one comment by a character who is proven to be wrong by the existence of both Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew and yet everybody champions Hagrid's view.
/Hagrid only takes an 11 year old boy to the train that will take him to home. He doesn’t travel with him./
He's just following in the footsteps of his mentor, who, after learning what a disturbed and violent boy eleven-year-old Tom Riddle was and knowing that Tom knew nothing about the wizarding world, gave him some money and just let him wander off and try to find Diagon Alley all by himself.
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That's always what I assumed.
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After observing how wizards interact with muggles and how they talk about them, I'm suspecting that the problem lays elsewhere: only people with magic are citizens of WW and in Potterverse wizards only respect citizens of WW thus muggles have no rights under WW's law. Case in point: it seems that only laws concerning interactions between wizards and muggles are secrecy laws. Nobody thinks twice about consequences of repeatedly wiping away someone's memories. Nobody bats eye about Neville's mistreatment during his childhood nor at distrusting Mrs. Figg's words during trial.
If such important things are ignored why wizards should care about financial situation of somebody's muggle relative?
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