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?
/Because traditionally treasures are guarded by goblins and/or dragons./
Well Goblins are using dragons, so foreign wizards could also :P
/In OOTP Hagrid says [...]/
Well there are also thestrals, but considering they are described as "skeletal " I'm kind of afraid for their health.
/What about Hagrid simply being seen in public places? His size is described as way outside what is possible for humans./
I was giving some allowances since everything is written from Harry's perspective, but you are right.
/Which one is that?/
I believe that was 'One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi '
/Supposedly at this point Quirrell was still physically autonomous (notice no turban yet). So no reason for Horcrux headache./
I'm simply having hard time warping my head around Quirrell agreeing to attempt bank robbery without Voldemort being fused to back of his head, when everybody make such big fuss about it.
Directly from my first post: "Freud Would Be Proud: The text is suggestive in some way or this commentator’s brain managed to connect perfectly innocent sentence with less than innocent image."
yay for another chapter and yes too all the hagrid's point also it comes later but i myself always found it odd that the school apparently has more magical protection than any other building in the wizarding world- schools usually are not build for war - even one that looks like a castle- the intention was from the get go for it to be a school - and from that perspective its just such a waste of resources! and thank you for mentioning that in reality: dumbledore created a monster and then created a weapon he intends to break at the end of the fight to destroy the monster, any other sane person and not so obsessed with power might have done a better job on tom ! fantastic count ! and such an entertaining read again!
The castle of Hogwarts doubling as a fortress made sense because it was a boarding school with all the younglings in one spot, it would be prudent to guard well against dark witches and wizards, or a muggle torches & pitchfork brigade.
but if you have it double as a fortress than it is lacking 1. adult wizards capable of defending the young and better security measures- because as it was it was a nightmare to defend, with too little exit routes and they had to destroy one of the bridges going there - seems half arsed as if someone never really thought it through also in reality though you tried to have your schools not being a fortress which would lead to madman coming for you because that would have destroyed all your books and books were thought as very expensive back then - but than it may be that uk did it differently than the continent since most of the schools on the continent were tied up with the church back then and only with the building of the first university in prague and then in vienna did the state take measurements of education in its hand
My headcanon is that one of the requirements for the Head, Deputy Head, and all four Heads of House is to be powerful enough to be able to lead a defense of the castle if necessary. The original Hogwarts probably would have been a like a Saxon burh. Actual castles didn't start getting built in Britain until after the Norman Conquest. Maybe Godric had spent some time in Normandy and picked up modern ideas, or Salazar brought the idea with him from Iberia. The bridges aren't relevant since they exist in the films only.
One would think that instead of dragging their clients down to vaults, they would ask what do you want to take out of it and would bring it to you
Having everyone have their own vaults makes no sense! That's not how banks work! In order to make this a functioning bank I head cannon that only old Wizarding families have vaults. And there are vaults you can lease like a safe-deposit box for items.
Of course Harry doesn't ask any questions, like how much does he have and how the system works. A responsible adult guardian would have a lot of questions to ask.
/Having everyone have their own vaults makes no sense! /
It doesn't, but at this point I was just shaking head at Jo's silliness and trying to point out Goblins' logic error, since they seem to be so obsessed with security. I also do not expect 11 year old child to ask right questions, but I would expect him to ask some questions instead of reading pre-written script.
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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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Well Goblins are using dragons, so foreign wizards could also :P
/In OOTP Hagrid says [...]/
Well there are also thestrals, but considering they are described as "skeletal " I'm kind of afraid for their health.
/What about Hagrid simply being seen in public places? His size is described as way outside what is possible for humans./
I was giving some allowances since everything is written from Harry's perspective, but you are right.
/Which one is that?/
I believe that was 'One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi '
/Supposedly at this point Quirrell was still physically autonomous (notice no turban yet). So no reason for Horcrux headache./
I'm simply having hard time warping my head around Quirrell agreeing to attempt bank robbery without Voldemort being fused to back of his head, when everybody make such big fuss about it.
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"Freud Would Be Proud: The text is suggestive in some way or this commentator’s brain managed to connect perfectly innocent sentence with less than innocent image."
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and yes too all the hagrid's point
also it comes later but i myself always found it odd that the school apparently has more magical protection than any other building in the wizarding world- schools usually are not build for war - even one that looks like a castle- the intention was from the get go for it to be a school - and from that perspective its just such a waste of resources!
and thank you for mentioning that in reality: dumbledore created a monster and then created a weapon he intends to break at the end of the fight to destroy the monster, any other sane person and not so obsessed with power might have done a better job on tom !
fantastic count !
and such an entertaining read again!
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also in reality though you tried to have your schools not being a fortress which would lead to madman coming for you because that would have destroyed all your books and books were thought as very expensive back then - but than it may be that uk did it differently than the continent since most of the schools on the continent were tied up with the church back then and only with the building of the first university in prague and then in vienna did the state take measurements of education in its hand
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Having everyone have their own vaults makes no sense! That's not how banks work! In order to make this a functioning bank I head cannon that only old Wizarding families have vaults. And there are vaults you can lease like a safe-deposit box for items.
Of course Harry doesn't ask any questions, like how much does he have and how the system works. A responsible adult guardian would have a lot of questions to ask.
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It doesn't, but at this point I was just shaking head at Jo's silliness and trying to point out Goblins' logic error, since they seem to be so obsessed with security.
I also do not expect 11 year old child to ask right questions, but I would expect him to ask some questions instead of reading pre-written script.
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