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Some HPMOR speculation Spoilers up to current chapter. After writing this, I checked the last LessWrong thread on HPMOR, and at least one component of this has already been noticed by other people, but others have not been, I think.
I was disappointed in the last chapter, gung nqhygf jbhyq frg nfvqr gurve pbaivpgvbaf naq cerwhqvprf naq yrg puvyqera cynl n fvtavsvpnag ebyr runs contrary to common sense and to the rest of the book.
Yeah, cause that never happens in canon.
I think wizard culture has some different ideas from your culture.
Sorry, I was used to your fic's to higher standards of believability of human behavior than canon's.
I must be missing something, because even Harry had trouble being taken seriously by most adults for most of the story, and no other (first-year) children were anywhere near his level. Yet suddenly so many of them seem to be taken seriously by their relatives and by all the most powerful wizards. And they didn't even have to save the Earth from the Formics.
It's still the culture that throws kids on a Hippogryff and tells them to get going.
And as Daphne notes in her thoughts, the children are standing in for their parents and speaking their parents' orders; they are acting as spokespersons for their families, and the others are treating them as such.
*Hippogriff
I suspect that had more to do with Harry's involvement than anything else. "gung [crbcyr ehaavat guvatf] jbhyq frg nfvqr gurve pbaivpgvbaf naq cerwhqvprf naq yrg puvyqera cynl n fvtavsvpnag ebyr" vf n ybg zber cynhfvoyr jura bar bs gurz vf n puvyq.
Which part would you never do if you (as board member) were righteously angry at Dumbledore?
I'd never let a child do the public announcement of my decision.
Why not, if they could do it? This seems a foolish rejection of a class of tools. See Malala Yousafzai.