Can't say I agree with these comparisons: - I really detest the twins but there IS a difference between being hissed at by two idiots from other "families" and being beaten up by a gang of 3 or 4 boys four years your senior - the twins picked on Dudley not because he's a muggle, but because he picked on Harry. It's sort of like stealing from a thief. If he subscribes to the idea that it is okay to use superior powers just because he can, then he should be prepared to submit to the same principle himself - George and Harry started beating Malfoy without bothering to see if the other was doing it as well, because he had provoked both of them quite severely. Don't get me wrong: I do NOT condone it - but again there is a difference between - lets say - killing a man you've just found in bed with your wife and planning to murder someone in cold blood. The way Dudley and his gang seem to have gone about it is a completely different mindset: walking around, looking for an easy victim and then finding fault with them ("What are you looking at? Problem?!") -as to the Slytherin trio being hexed on the Hogwarts Express: if the text is to be believed (and I'd say it's difficult how to argue if we dispense with that) then they started hexing Harry (three on one) - so why should the DA not have intervened? I think there is a big difference between a "sporting contest" where same numbers on both sides are required to make it a fair match and the mere prevention of something bad happening. If I saw someone trying to hurt someone else, my first concern would be to stop the attack, not making sure the assailant had a sporting chance of winning.
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Date: 2011-01-22 05:16 pm (UTC)- I really detest the twins but there IS a difference between being hissed at by two idiots from other "families" and being beaten up by a gang of 3 or 4 boys four years your senior
- the twins picked on Dudley not because he's a muggle, but because he picked on Harry. It's sort of like stealing from a thief. If he subscribes to the idea that it is okay to use superior powers just because he can, then he should be prepared to submit to the same principle himself
- George and Harry started beating Malfoy without bothering to see if the other was doing it as well, because he had provoked both of them quite severely. Don't get me wrong: I do NOT condone it - but again there is a difference between - lets say - killing a man you've just found in bed with your wife and planning to murder someone in cold blood. The way Dudley and his gang seem to have gone about it is a completely different mindset: walking around, looking for an easy victim and then finding fault with them ("What are you looking at? Problem?!")
-as to the Slytherin trio being hexed on the Hogwarts Express: if the text is to be believed (and I'd say it's difficult how to argue if we dispense with that) then they started hexing Harry (three on one) - so why should the DA not have intervened? I think there is a big difference between a "sporting contest" where same numbers on both sides are required to make it a fair match and the mere prevention of something bad happening. If I saw someone trying to hurt someone else, my first concern would be to stop the attack, not making sure the assailant had a sporting chance of winning.