What is your authority for this? It just seems like you assume people think what you want, such as when you describe Hermione's thoughts on house-elves' will and then, when it doesn't suit you, you say things like: on the other hand, we don't really get into Hermione's psyche much at all, so we can't really know this
Her interviews. I'm sorry - I'm really pressed for time and I'm not able to dig it up right now. On the other hand, I don't think I'm having it "both ways." I think Hermione is a flawed character, like every other character in the books. Sometimes she acts on her principles, and sometimes she doesn't.
No, it is not. The way it is enforced, OTOH is, unless you can point me to a place in the law itself that makes an exception for pureblood underaged wizards.
Splitting hairs, I think...it cannot, by its very nature, be enforced on anyone other than a muggle born. This must have been thoroughly evident when it was written. If they had written it with deliberately racist language, it probably would never have passed, or would have been repealed long ago.
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Her interviews. I'm sorry - I'm really pressed for time and I'm not able to dig it up right now. On the other hand, I don't think I'm having it "both ways." I think Hermione is a flawed character, like every other character in the books. Sometimes she acts on her principles, and sometimes she doesn't.
No, it is not. The way it is enforced, OTOH is, unless you can point me to a place in the law itself that makes an exception for pureblood underaged wizards.
Splitting hairs, I think...it cannot, by its very nature, be enforced on anyone other than a muggle born. This must have been thoroughly evident when it was written. If they had written it with deliberately racist language, it probably would never have passed, or would have been repealed long ago.