Expelled, What does the future hold for an expelled Hogwarts student? |
 Jun 15 2009, 02:06 AM
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Throughout their adventure-filled years at Hogwarts, somehow Harry, Ron and Hermione (not to mention James and Sirius and the Weasley twins) managed to not get expelled, although Harry did have a very close call in OotP. Hagrid was not so lucky: he was expelled after being falsely accused by Tom Riddle of opening the Chamber of Secrets. As Hagrid was an orphan at the time, Dumbledore kindly found a place for him at Hogwarts. Under normal circumstances though, what does life hold for a student who is expelled from Hogwarts? Are they shunned from the wizarding world? Would their wand be destroyed, or would this only happen if they were found guilty of a crime? Would their parents complete their magical education at home, or, if denied the use of a wand, would they have to live out the rest of their lives denied the use of their magical abilities? Would they live their lives as if they were Squibs, aware of the magical world but unable to participate? Or would they enter life in the Muggle world?
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), but this might in of itself include a violation of the law. So expulsion might essentially include destruction of one's wand, just due to the the fact that it's likely that the incident that got one expelled in the first place was unlawful. Although Harry's crime of performing magic outside of school as an underage wizard wasn't serious, I think Fudge combined this with Harry's performing magic in front of a Muggle (violating the Statute of Secrecy) and brought the whole Wizangamot in to hear the case in an attempt to gather anti-Harry support within the Ministry. Obviously he wanted to bring Harry down, and I think he was going beyond the normal legal procedures to accomplish it.
