I also really doubt that any police force would let a prisoner resist them that way again and again, they would call reinforcement and break him. Even if he didn’t do anything before, just resisting police forces is a criminal in many places, and it would really surprise me if Wizard Britain, with its awful human rights record, would let that go.
Edit : unless there is something much, much deeper at work here. Like Quirrel imperiusing or controlling in another way some high-ranking officers.
Wizarding police have to allow for the fact that some possible prisoners (Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Voldemort) are capable of beating up the whole police department put together. When someone displays surprising power, it makes sense to back off, at least until you’re sure you can take him.
Hum, in canon at least, when they try to arrest Dumbledore at the end of tome 5 (HP and the Order of the Phoenix) they don’t seem that hesitant to arrest him, as soon as they have proof he’s doing something illegal, and they seem quite surprised he escaped.
But that could be a point of divergence between canon and HP:MoR, especially if the head of the Auror is very intelligent in HP:MoR, she could know about not escalating conflicts too easily.
Yeah, MoR has a much more well-thought-through concept of what it means to be a powerful wizard, and the difference between that and a normal wizard.
And even in canon, I’m not sure it makes sense for them to be surprised he could escape- everyone thinks of Dumbledore as the most powerful wizard alive- but they could have conceivably been expecting him not to attempt to resist arrest, because he’s generally more law-abiding than that.
I also really doubt that any police force would let a prisoner resist them that way again and again, they would call reinforcement and break him.
It happens they did not. We know that, because he isn’t broken and there’s no sign they tried, other than the mention that he has apparently sneezed more than once. Also, he’s not under arrest.
The Defense Professor of Hogwarts was being detained, not arrested, not even intimidated.
Magical Britain has a history of exceedingly powerful individuals that the muggle world just doesn’t. It is not unreasonable that law enforcement developed differently as a result.
I also really doubt that any police force would let a prisoner resist them that way again and again, they would call reinforcement and break him. Even if he didn’t do anything before, just resisting police forces is a criminal in many places, and it would really surprise me if Wizard Britain, with its awful human rights record, would let that go.
Edit : unless there is something much, much deeper at work here. Like Quirrel imperiusing or controlling in another way some high-ranking officers.
Wizarding police have to allow for the fact that some possible prisoners (Dumbledore, Grindelwald, Voldemort) are capable of beating up the whole police department put together. When someone displays surprising power, it makes sense to back off, at least until you’re sure you can take him.
Hum, in canon at least, when they try to arrest Dumbledore at the end of tome 5 (HP and the Order of the Phoenix) they don’t seem that hesitant to arrest him, as soon as they have proof he’s doing something illegal, and they seem quite surprised he escaped.
But that could be a point of divergence between canon and HP:MoR, especially if the head of the Auror is very intelligent in HP:MoR, she could know about not escalating conflicts too easily.
Yeah, MoR has a much more well-thought-through concept of what it means to be a powerful wizard, and the difference between that and a normal wizard.
And even in canon, I’m not sure it makes sense for them to be surprised he could escape- everyone thinks of Dumbledore as the most powerful wizard alive- but they could have conceivably been expecting him not to attempt to resist arrest, because he’s generally more law-abiding than that.
It happens they did not. We know that, because he isn’t broken and there’s no sign they tried, other than the mention that he has apparently sneezed more than once. Also, he’s not under arrest.
Magical Britain has a history of exceedingly powerful individuals that the muggle world just doesn’t. It is not unreasonable that law enforcement developed differently as a result.