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+On Violence in the Magical World
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+:date: 2024-03-11T17:37:51
+:category: literature
+:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment
+
+(a comment on the Reddit thread “`Lavender Brown is a good
+friend.`_” started by `u/Fan_of_Fanfics`_; more discussion on
+that thread)
+
+This is actually a very good comment, because it forced me
+to think more about the magical world. Of course, I agree,
+that culturally we are learned to be much more harsh about the
+violence of man on women (for many good reasons) than the other
+way around, but I don’t think it is it.
+
+From the Dolyist point of view, I am angry with “`Golden
+Bullets`_” (and all bashing!Ron stories) that they manipulated
+the story to be more violent and made Hermione look worse. It
+is the same as with many Harmony stories, where Ron is not only
+jealous and not believing Harry about the Goblet of Fire. No, he
+even had a letter from Charlie informing him about dragons, and
+he didn’t tell Harry anything, because he wanted him to be hurt
+by a dragon! And this is the same here, not only Ron was hit by
+twenty fluffy hairball-like little birds (which is what happened
+in the film), but he was bloodied and wounded to the level he
+required hospitalization! I don’t like it.
+
+However, that is not what is really interesting. The situation
+is fascinating for me from the Watsonian point of view. I had to
+rethink again how very violent the magical world is. Yes, you are
+right, children are cruel and violent, but in the magical world,
+every child since age eleven, got a lethal weapon in his hand
+and training how to use it. I studied for a PhD in criminology
+(not criminalistics, like the crime scene investigation, but a
+sub-category of sociology, studying reasons why people commit
+crimes and possible methods of prevention) and as such, I am
+persuaded that the number of violent crimes in the United States
+is directly correlated with number of weapons in population.
+
+There is that stupid argument that if you take weapons from
+people, only criminals will have them. It completely misses
+the point. The point where they are wrong is not that we would
+like to prevent Cosa Nostra from committing crimes. We cannot,
+or not by arms control. However, that is not our aim, because
+most violent crime is not committed by criminal syndicates. What
+we can do, is to prevent the casual availability of lethal
+weapons in the population. As you said, children (or teenagers)
+are cruel, violent, and completely lacking means of conflict
+control. Conflicts, especially among male teenagers, happen,
+and sometime end in violence. The difference between the United
+States and other countries, is that in other countries they
+use fists (or in the worst case, knives), which can hurt,
+wound, but it takes much more effort to kill. In the US,
+they have immediately guns in their hands, and somebody gets
+killed. The highest number of murders in the United States among
+non-relatives (of course, you know, that your most probable
+murderer is among your relatives, especially your spouse, not
+some evil criminal, right?), so the highest number of such
+murders there is among teenagers, either in relation to drugs or
+not.
+
+Now switch to the magical universe. It is the society which is
+absolutely completely saturated with lethal weapons, in the
+literal meaning of the word. Absolutely every magical child,
+man, or woman has a lethal weapon in their hands all the time,
+and they are trained to use it. The violent crime rate must be
+incredible. I was joking that the Harry Potter universe is a lot
+like the Wild West, where everybody has a gun on their belt,
+but it is much, much worse. In such a world, the punishment for
+any unjustifiable violent action, should be much, much more
+strict, otherwise they would kill each other pretty quickly. And
+of course, it is combined with all those hundreds of hormonal
+teenagers being held together in a boarding school for a whole
+year.
+
+.. _`Lavender Brown is a good friend.`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/1bb1hvi/lavender_brown_is_a_good_friend/
+
+.. _`u/Fan_of_Fanfics`:
+   https://www.reddit.com/user/Fan_of_Fanfics/
+
+.. _`Golden Bullets`:
+    https://archiveofourown.org/works/18935341