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   Tom (tom@zeroes.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 12:05:50 JST Tom

   It has always annoyed me that the wizards all knew that his foster family was abusive towards Harry but they kept sending him back to it.

   It's not okay to ignore abuse even if it's by a person's parents or guardians.

   Makes a lot of sense though when you know what the author is like.

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     PacificNic (pacificnic@zeroes.ca)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 12:06:38 JST PacificNic

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     @Tom as a kid, I never even thought about how heinous the abuse against Harry was. She writes about despicable traumatizing neglect so casually.

     One thing she got right, though: "responsible" adults rarely do the right thing.

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 12:13:59 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     @Tom I read the first book as an adult, and spent the entire book going, incredulously, "ARE THERE NO MANDATED REPORTERS AT HOGWARTS?! WERE THERE NO MANDATED REPORTERS AT HIS PREVIOUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?!"

     Edit to add: I mean. Isn't that the whole point of setting fantasy stories into distant past? Into some presumed savage time when child abuse and neglect were so unremarkable as to be plausible?

     That is not the '80s. I promise. I lived through the '80s. We knew that locking children in closets was illegal back then. We had mandated reporters and everything.

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