No, I’m not assuming that children brokered the deal, but I can see that it may have looked that way, especially if you miss the context (that I was responding to the specific things EternalStargazer said).
To some extent, yeah, wizard children are, and are treated as being, more competent than muggle children. But there’s still a very real difference between an adult and a child. For example, Harry Potter still needs a legal guardian. And I assume that McGonaggal’s “She is a twelve-year-old girl, Albus!” isn’t strongly atypical.
Anyway, no matter how mature they are (read the various dorm and SPHEW scenes for some sanity checks on that idea), they still don’t have any authority; there are people whose responsibility is to make announcements such as these, and to have the kids do all this posing instead makes it a bit farcical to me.
I think if they really wanted to, the parties involved could make this happen, but why would they want to? I don’t expect the world to be scandalized, I just expect some eye-rolling and mild incredulity. Not something you want if you’re making a political move and want to be taken seriously.
But hey, I’m one of the probably small minority of readers who’ve never quite accepted things like, say, how easily Harry Potter gets away with being rude to Dumbledore.
^ Don’t do that.
No, I’m not assuming that children brokered the deal, but I can see that it may have looked that way, especially if you miss the context (that I was responding to the specific things EternalStargazer said).
To some extent, yeah, wizard children are, and are treated as being, more competent than muggle children. But there’s still a very real difference between an adult and a child. For example, Harry Potter still needs a legal guardian. And I assume that McGonaggal’s “She is a twelve-year-old girl, Albus!” isn’t strongly atypical.
Anyway, no matter how mature they are (read the various dorm and SPHEW scenes for some sanity checks on that idea), they still don’t have any authority; there are people whose responsibility is to make announcements such as these, and to have the kids do all this posing instead makes it a bit farcical to me.
I think if they really wanted to, the parties involved could make this happen, but why would they want to? I don’t expect the world to be scandalized, I just expect some eye-rolling and mild incredulity. Not something you want if you’re making a political move and want to be taken seriously.
But hey, I’m one of the probably small minority of readers who’ve never quite accepted things like, say, how easily Harry Potter gets away with being rude to Dumbledore.