In addition to the mental anguish, I think the twins really *have* begun to cause damage beyond reasonable wizarding standards. Most injuries can be fixed in a matter of minutes; Harry's bones were regrown in less than a night, and McGonagall recovered from four stunners (near deadly, based on the reactions) in less than a week. Yet F&G shoved a classmate into a vanishing cabinet for no real reason (and not as a joke, either) and weeks later, he still had brain damage. Additionally, with the ton-tongue toffee, they essentially poisoned a Muggle as all the wizards were leaving the area -- it was entirely luck that Dudley happened to eat the candy before Arthur had left. Magical medicine can't do a whole lot to help someone when there are no wizards in the area, and as far as we know, the Ministry wasn't alerted (as w/Marge), so who knows how long it would have been for Dudley to get help. If they didn't realize this would be a problem, I have a hard time cutting them slack for it.
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Date: 2005-03-17 11:56 pm (UTC)