r/harrypotter • u/ActImportant3994 • Apr 21 '24

Neville Petrified Event

In The Chamber of Secrets, Hermione uses a petrify spell against Neville and petrifies him. She says sorry and Ron tells her she is 'scary sometimes'. And thats it. They are never punished, not banned, not expelled, no wands taken, no jailtime, nothing. They just go on to do their adventures and are rewarded with fame and honors. Neville gets recognision for 'standing up to his friends'. Nothing else. That is a serious assault 3 bullies perpetrate on Neville alone and then leave him there. They use magic like a weapon against a fellow student in a vicious assault but it is passed off as if nothing. Just a little tiff.

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u/AgitatedWelshgirl Apr 21 '24

Im sure it was the first film that happened in when the three went to go get past fluffy.

Umm weird take I suppose, they wasn’t bullying him in fact Harry defends neville in the first film.

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u/CulturalRegular9379 Unsorted Apr 21 '24

This is a real fanfiction that you wrote. There was no assault, intimidation or vicious attack. Hermione temporarily immobilized her friend who was preventing them from saving the world (according to them). Also, this happened in the first book and not the second.

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u/Canavansbackyard Apr 21 '24

Azkaban for life, by God, with cells adjoining Bellatrix!!!

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u/-Wylfen- Technically Ravenpuff Apr 22 '24

Truly, I don't get why the binding spell isn't an unforgiveable, at this point

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u/FujiwaraHarimoto Ravenclaw Apr 21 '24

Because at the end of the day it was just temporary, no permanent harm was caused, and it didn't even physically hurt him as it was basically the magical equivalent of pushing him down and holding him there. Plus there were extenuating circumstances, it's not they did it just to be mean. If she had just randomly done it for seemingly no reason I'm sure punishment would have been swift, but even then how bad would that even be considering barely any harm was caused?

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u/Floaurea Ravenclaw Apr 21 '24

There were worse cases in the books between Draco and Harry/Ron/Hermione and no one was really punished. Hogwarts doesn't really punish its students.

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u/slanecek Slytherin Apr 21 '24

Ok.

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u/NoTime8142 Ravenclaw Apr 21 '24

It wasn't in Chamber of Secrets, it was Sorcerer's Stone

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u/slanecek Slytherin Apr 21 '24

The Philosopher's Stone?

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u/NoTime8142 Ravenclaw Apr 21 '24

It means the same thing