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The stuff about Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley just contains a lot of screwed assumptions. The sentence added at the end apparently seeks to rectify some of these, but given the wild change of tone, the whole thing seems like natter and would better be done away with completely. To begin with, there is no blatant indication in the text that Malfoy getting those tickets was meant to be seen as negative. The entry comments on an attack to a character that simply is not there. Secondly, Lucius did not throw money around specifically to get those seats. While balking at Dumbledore’s notice that Voldemort is back, Fudge brings up the numerous and frequent donations he made to “excellent causes”. Throwing around money to improve his standing (and presumably whitewash his reputation) is something he is repeatedly mentioned of doing. Third, “turning a blind eye to the criminal activities of a co-worker and their family” sounds like a pretty damn harsh interpretation of “I did him [Bagman] a bit of a favour: His brother, Otto, got into a spot of trouble - a lawnmower with unnatural powers - I smoothed the whole thing over.” At worst, he smoothed over a minor offense. If such crimes were major, he himself would be in jail after the Flying Anglia, and the \
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The stuff about Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley just contains a lot of screwed assumptions. The sentence added at the end apparently seeks to rectify some of these, but given the wild change of tone, the whole thing seems like natter and would better be done away with completely. To begin with, there is no blatant indication in the text that Malfoy getting those tickets was meant to be seen as negative. The entry comments on an attack to a character that simply is not there. Secondly, Lucius did not throw money around specifically to get those seats. While balking at Dumbledore’s notice that Voldemort is back, Fudge brings up the numerous and frequent donations he made to “excellent causes”. Throwing around money to improve his standing (and presumably whitewash his reputation) is something he is repeatedly mentioned of doing. Third, “turning a blind eye to the criminal activities of a co-worker and their family” sounds like a pretty damn harsh interpretation of “I did him [Bagman] a bit of a favour: His brother, Otto, got into a spot of trouble - a lawnmower with unnatural powers - I smoothed the whole thing over.” At worst, he smoothed over a minor offense. If such crimes were major, he himself would be in jail after the Flying Anglia, and the \\\"no enchanting muggle objects\\\" laws are there mostly because of him, we are told repeatedly that nobody cares about his work. The entry makes it sound as if he was covering up a mafia family\\\'s drug cartel.
The stuff about disproportionate punishments between Gryffindors and Slytherins is just… I don’t want to star something here, but this seems like it was written by someone with an agenda. Whenever a Gryffindor (usually Harry) gets caught doing anything (and I’d rather not even start talking about what motivated the inclusion of the qualifiers “\\\'\\\'cruel\\\'\\\', stupid, or against the rules”. And wouldn’t the last one be a given?), they/he always gets a punishment. Harry spends shitloads of time in detention, and most certainly not just from Snape (Was that an attempt to paint Snape as valiantly defending his poor bullied house or something?). Harry’s first detention ever was ordered by McGonagall. Harry gets “scot free” when he doesn’t get caught, just as everyone else. On the flip side… how many times does a Slytherin get caught doing anything, let alone given terrible punishment? Draco gets sent on the same detention as Harry in the first year. There’s no elaboration on what he gets after the pretend-to-be-Dementors stunt in PoA. Snape lets him scot free after Harry and him try to curse each other in GoF, and Harry is the one who gets detention. Slughorn and Snape both excuse Malfoy when Filch catches him wandering around past curfew in HBP. The only time punishments and Slytherin get mentioned together are usually mentions of Snape failing to hand them out (See Ootp “Snape was obviously no less partisan…”). On the James and Sirius thing: Yes, they “only” got detentions. What else would they get, jail time? It’s a school. Detention is as far as you get before flat out expulsion, and given the crap EVERYONE gets away with, Hogwarts has a pretty high threshold for that. It’s not like the book implies their offenses were overlooked, Sirius himself admits they spent a gargantuan amount of time in detention (The twin mirrors were used to pass time in those situations), and when Snape makes Harry go through their detention records in Half-Blood Prince, the thing was kilometric, rivalling the filing cabinet Filch had reserved for Fred and George’s reports alone.
Anyhow, I’m leaving this up for a couple of days. If no objections are posted, I’ll wipe off both entires.
The stuff about disproportionate punishments between Gryffindors and Slytherins is just… I don’t want to star something here, but this seems like it was written by someone with an agenda. Whenever a Gryffindor (usually Harry) gets caught doing anything (and I’d rather not even start talking about what motivated the inclusion of the qualifiers “\\\'\\\'cruel\\\'\\\', stupid, or against the rules”. And wouldn’t the last one be a given?), they/he always gets a punishment. Harry spends shitloads of time in detention, and most certainly not just from Snape (Was that an attempt to paint Snape as valiantly defending his poor bullied house or something?). Harry’s first detention ever was ordered by McGonagall. Harry gets “scot free” when he doesn’t get caught, just as everyone else. On the flip side… how many times does a Slytherin get caught doing anything, let alone given terrible punishment? Draco gets sent on the same detention as Harry in the first year. There’s no elaboration on what he gets after the pretend-to-be-Dementors stunt in PoA. Snape lets him scot free after Harry and him try to curse each other in GoF, and Harry is the one who gets detention. Slughorn and Snape both excuse Malfoy when Filch catches him wandering around past curfew in HBP. The only time punishments and Slytherin get mentioned together are usually mentions of Snape failing to hand them out (See Ootp “Snape was obviously no less partisan…”). On the James and Sirius thing: Yes, they “only” got detentions. What else would they get, jail time? It’s a school. Detention is as far as you get before flat out expulsion, and given the crap EVERYONE gets away with, Hogwarts has a pretty high threshold for that. It’s not like the book implies their offenses were overlooked, Sirius himself admits they spent a gargantuan amount of time in detention (The twin mirrors were used to pass time in those situations), and when Snape makes Harry go through their detention records in Half-Blood Prince, the thing was kilometric, rivalling the filing cabinet Filch had reserved for Fred and George’s reports alone.
Anyhow, I’m leaving this up for a couple of days. If no objections are posted, I’ll wipe off both entires.
