Timeline for Why was the Dumbledore family against bringing Ariana to St Mungo's Hospital?
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| Apr 5, 2017 at 12:36 | comment | added | MissMonicaE | I do think the Healer was annoyingly condescending to Lockhart. It's generally obnoxious to call grown adults "lamb" and "sweetie" and otherwise treat them like children. I would not want my sister to spend her life being treated like that, no matter how ill she was. | |
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| Dec 1, 2016 at 15:32 | comment | added | Cartolin | @Pwassonne As far as bad treatment goes, they still locked her up, wouldn't let anybody see her, and generally tried to hide her very existence... Even though their intentions were honorable, I agree with the question, and the fact that their logic is kinda flawed... | |
| Nov 5, 2016 at 21:35 | comment | added | Pwassonne | @R.Skeeter I feel that the way the Dumbledores treated Ariana is rather historically accurate, in that mental illness and disability were once considered highly shameful (they still are to an extent, but it does not compare). There would, of course, be more than enough to analyze when it comes to wizards' treatment of disability (Squibs), illness... it seems that even at the time of the main story, there is still strong stigma attached to difference. | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 20:33 | comment | added | user68762 | @Pwassonne so instead the family locked her up. the more i think about it it's how wizards treat mental illnesses. Look at neville being ashamed and the healer saying how no one visits Lockhart, now he's in the closed ward.they prbably didn't want her treated as a halfwit and laughed at. | |
| Oct 31, 2016 at 20:17 | comment | added | Pwassonne | I think the matter isn't whether St Mungo was worse then than it would later become, but how the Dumbledores thought it was - and when Aberforth says "she would have been locked up", he seems to feel that she would have been generally badly treated. | |
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| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:46 | comment | added | user68762 | @Himarm but they most definitely couldn't handle it, Kendra's death should have demonstrated that. Also Albus seems like an independent thinker, not that influenced by 'muggle mentality' so it's strange he didn't consider the rational option. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:15 | comment | added | Valorum | @Himarm - Indeed. None of the individuals mentioned in the OPs question are prone to self-harming or liable to commit dangerous magicks. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:13 | comment | added | Himarm | you also have to consider price, stigma, as well as she most likely would be placed in a closed ward / locked up. while the hospital may have been equipped to handle her, money not an issue, rowling may also be putting 1900's muggle mentality in her writting of the dumbledores, which at the time if you could "handle it yourself(or not)" you didnt go looking for outside help, thats a recent acquisition in the mindset of society thats been building the last 100 years. | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:11 | comment | added | Valorum | Regardless, you can hardly generalise about what a hospital was like a hundred years ago based on how it's structured today; slam.nhs.uk/our-services/hospital-care/bethlem-royal-hospital vs. historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/… | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:10 | comment | added | user68762 | @Valorum Wizardins society seems pretty static to me, so i am not sure we could except rapid change and progress in their institutions such as Hogwarts, the MoM and St Mungo, We're speaking of people who still use quills and keep slaves...I bet St. Mungo havent changed much in the last century :) | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 18:08 | comment | added | Valorum | St Mungos in 1990 is probably a damn sight more "modern" in its practices than St Mungos in the 1905, when his sister was injured. | |
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