The average muggle’s ability to cause a large number of deaths is pretty high too (at least in America, where guns aren’t too hard to get). My former high school has been around for 43 years now, and has never had a mass murder, and had quite a few more students than Hogwarts does. Columbine-level events are nearly unheard of, even though they wouldn’t be much harder to execute than the hundred-pounds-of-bleach plan. The wards are probably just there to prevent outside attack from political opponents, and the children are assumed to be as well adjusted as anyone else in society.
One: I wasn’t thinking in reference to Hogwarts students, just wizards in general. (Hence ‘Diagon Alley’ rather than ‘the Great Hall’.)
Two:
Blaise stared at the black mist, now beginning to feel a little uneasy. But it ought to take a Hogwarts professor to do anything significant to him without setting off alarms.
The average muggle’s ability to cause a large number of deaths is pretty high too (at least in America, where guns aren’t too hard to get). My former high school has been around for 43 years now, and has never had a mass murder, and had quite a few more students than Hogwarts does. Columbine-level events are nearly unheard of, even though they wouldn’t be much harder to execute than the hundred-pounds-of-bleach plan. The wards are probably just there to prevent outside attack from political opponents, and the children are assumed to be as well adjusted as anyone else in society.
One: I wasn’t thinking in reference to Hogwarts students, just wizards in general. (Hence ‘Diagon Alley’ rather than ‘the Great Hall’.)
Two:
Except that the “hundred pounds of bleach” plan requires only a single, irreversible action, so it’s more like pressing a button.