nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
What’s there to understand? It’s not like magic or people with magic are from call of cthulchu rpg and damage sanity from interaction, they are as normal as you can get I don’t think you can make magic any more boring and mundane then it is in Harry Potter.
I mean, yeah, your points are valid as long as you squint hard enough and disregard some cartoonisly evil shit.
Saleh@feddit.org 5 days ago
Someone with the flick of a piece of wood can just murder you outright, with you having no way of defending against it. Before they learn to control it, the magic of the children just “flows” in uncontrollable ways. Maybe doing something silly like coloring hair, but maybe also destroying things and hurting people. For a non magical person in an entirely unpredictable way, without any possibility to intervene or repair the damage as easily.
Keep in mind that there is no mention of the Dursley’s ever receiving any sort of guidance on how to deal with a magical child. They are just expected to figure it out by themselves. Imagine you would have to deal with a special needs child, just that nobody is giving you any information, you can not reach out to anyone about it, you must keep it a secret as otherwise you get booked in the closed psychiatry and on top of it all the child at any point may burn down your house.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
Someone with a gun can just murder you outright with you having no way of defending against it. It doesn’t make guns something that’s beyond understanding. Same with anything that can damage another person.
Why would they need to keep secrecy and who exactly is going to get them into psych? People can deal with a child, and magic in harry potter universe is reversible and not permanent for the most part. There are multiple new families with magical children every year and they don’t recieve any guidance as well, yet they manage somehow without being assholes for the most part.