Why did Rowling think it was appropriate to have every child in a school armed with a killing device...

Why did Rowling think it was appropriate to have every child in a school armed with a killing device? Shouldn't there have been some sort of “wand control” in the wizarding world? There was nothing to stop Draco Malfoy from flipping out one day and Advada Kadavaring all of the Griffindores. Really makes you think...

Draco Malfoy is a fucking pussy and killing isn't as simple as saying the spell's name. Crouch Moody said that it takes serious power and killing intent to use the killing spell, and that if every kid in the class raised their wands and cast the spell at him at once he doubted he'd get a nose bleed.

Spells require 1) words and 2) technique. Unless you're trained, presumably you'll fuck one of those up and can't really kill someone.

It's like they give the kids guns but no bullets.

Because Rowling was a moron writing children's books

>SHALL

Makes no difference when they can control their speech.

Rowling took the accidentally so retarded redpill

Obviously it was so they could defend themselves against dark wizards. If they only took wands away from the good wizards then they'd have no defense because the dark wizards would get wands illegally anyway

IIRC the kids don't have enough training or power to do it.

Because Rowling was redpilled you fucking cuck. No one could go full school schooter because they'd be killed immediately if they tried it.

The real question is how something can be based on vocalization in a country with more accents than unmolested sheep.

What about all the other crazy they can do, even without wands.

Potions class is probably the biggest offender because they're basically being taught how to make literal drugs.

Doubt Rowling has a problem with kids doing drugs, she is a single mother after all.

Because she wrote one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Harry did need any training at all to use Sectum Sempra, which would have killed Malfoy had Snape not been there.

Autism

Presumably wand control is unpopular considering a dictator almost took over the wizard world recently, so it's best to have all civilians armed.

there are no checks and balances in the wizarding world. Rowling is a hack.

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You could literally just turn a kid into a mouse and crush them.

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The Potter universe exists solely in the mind of JK Rowling and unless we accept the slim chance she is browsing Sup Forums at this very moment and chooses to respond to your thread concerning her ideas in a kids book, we will never know for certain.

You could try on /lit/ or even asking her on twitter(She is desperate enough to respond to most things)

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Rowling has no concept of how functioning socities work. It's honestly a suspension of disbelief that the wizarding world functions at all at a level above a failed post-colonial African shithole. The sorting hat is a just one fucking example.

>Sorting hat puts those already predisposed to bring evil fucks in a house far more likely to create evil fucks

>Segregates the vast majority of intelligent people into their own in-group

>Places the special snowflakes that aren't bound by the rules and literally haven't done jack shit into their own cabal literally because omgsobrave

>Sends all the meh-tier chucklefucks into a cess-pit of dead-end mediocrity devoid of meaningful prospects

How there aren't constant genocides, beta uprisings, rogue groups of violent revolutionaries, and Voldemort-tier Ubermenschen running around causing biblical levels of strife and destruction on a regular basis is honestly so far fetched that it makes chilluns shitting out unicorns to ward off grimdark janitors seem reasonable by comparison.

Wizards in the films tend to place less importance into life-or-death situations (or at least extremely dangerous ones). Throughout each volume, there's something put into place by either the school or the government that's disturbingly life threatening and treated as if it's just another day at the office - the Triwizard Tournament, Dementors, School-Regulated Dueling, a fucking Cerberus dog in the same castle where students sleep. Hell, Quidditch even hinges on winning at the risk of getting pummeled by a flying cannonball.

And in a setting where magically broken bones and sicknesses can be magically cured in a day, and where people live to be anywhere between 150 to 600 years old, why not have a little adventure? It makes sense until Voldemort comes along. Why is the threat of death such a big deal if it's dealt with all the damn time? Soul stealing I can get, or even constant torture or something, but the students have dealt with the threat of bodily harm since age 11.

>>Segregates the vast majority of intelligent people into their own in-group

This makes sense though. The No Child Left Behind program did more to fuck up US education than anything else in history.

afterthought - it could be the idea of 'senseless killing' that people aren't cool with. It's all well and good to risk your life driving, or playing sports, or whatever, but terroristic threats aren't cool.

This makes sense. Most people in real life don't die instantly, it's from injuries or sickness or whatever. And wizards can fix virtually any sickness or injury instantly so only instant death methods are scary, which is why everyone is so afraid of Avada Kadavra; It's one of the few things they can't fix.

>j kuck rowling is antigun irl
>wands for everyone!

>Why did Rowling think it was appropriate to have every child in a school armed with a killing device?
Because wands are not weapons. Wands are tools that CAN be used for killing, but is otherwise a device that is used for mundane everyday tasks. If you think wands are the equivalent of guns then you might think too highly of your firearms. Wands are what people carry not for self defence, but for general use.

This is what the British think about "tools".

will you ever kill yourself or what odran

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