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Posts: 711 · Joined: Aug 12, 2007 Posts: 711

what did the muggles do to her did they beat her up or well do what they do in the kiterunne rif u know what i mean
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Posts: 773 · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Location: A Land Down Under Posts: 773

No, I don't have any idea what you mean.
They just picked on her as far as I remember, I'm reading it again, but haven't reached that part.
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Posts: 267 · Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 267

I believe they used methods of child torture, like something a scared group of children would do on a victom, meaning, kicking her in the face, stabbing her arms, something probably really violent for a six year old to experience...you know? I don't think a bunch of muggle kids even had the ability to do stuff to her 'kiterrune' [if you will] but that's just my opinion, as far as I remember, they were muggle kids that messed with her.
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Posts: 28261 · Posted: August 14, 2007 1:59 am Post subject:

Whatever they did it must have been pretty horrible... it really messed her up good.
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Posts: 773 · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Location: A Land Down Under Posts: 773

Yeah well kids can certainly be cruel.
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Posts: 267 · Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 267

A little off topic, but her powers being confined and bursting out at random moments of high emotion kinda reminds me of Jean Grey/Phoenix from the X-men Razz

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Posts: 140 · Posted: August 14, 2007 3:54 am Post subject:

^^^ Haha I was just thinkin that when I read over that part this morning.
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Posts: 555 · Posted: August 14, 2007 6:05 am Post subject:

It never specifies what they did to her in the book.
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Ask a silly question she was raped by them.

Posts: 267 · Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 267

was she? for using magical powers a bunch of muggles raped her? Why? And weren't they little kids too? I don't think little kids would rape a six year old...and neither would teenagers..
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Posts: 267 · Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 267

so it was written in as young muggles...well then I really don't know if they raped her...I'd imagine they where her age [6 or 9 can't remember] and they probably just phsyically and mentally abused her...JKRs world is alot more sensative then the real one I've come to realize.
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Well for a start look at ron and hermoinies reactions for a start and aberforths.

Posts: 9582 · Posted: August 17, 2007 5:53 pm Post subject:

do u think thats why DD kept filch even though he was a bit disgruntled
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Posts: 267 · Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 267

that's a pretty smart catch, I would think it had something to do with feeling sorry for him and not letting the weaker go down and giving them a chance or something, all in turn for the lost years he didn't use to try and help his sister
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Posts: 2535 · Posted: August 17, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

I have heard a lot of theories that she was raped, but when I was reading it I just thought she was beat up.
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Posts: 773 · Joined: Jul 11, 2007 Location: A Land Down Under Posts: 773

I never thought for a second that she was raped by them. Only that they taunted her and made fun of her probebely used some kind of verbal and physical abuse, but rape definatly never entered my mind.
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Posts: 9582 · Posted: August 18, 2007 7:01 am Post subject:

as grown up as the story becomes, i don't think JK would open up that proverbial can of worms full of lawsuits and angry parents.

i believe the muggles roughed her up
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Posts: 170 · Joined: Aug 16, 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 170

It's written to hide it from the younger kids, I think Rowling relied on the reader to figure out that she was raped, she just hinted at it and let you come to the conclusion. Aberforth never really touches it, but Ron and Hermione's reactions were a little harsh for just beating someone up. Here's the text:
"When my sister was six years old, she was attacked, set upon, by three Muggle boys. They'd seen her doing magic, spying through the back garden hedge: She was a kid, she couldn't control it, no witch or wizard can at that age. What they saw scared them, I expect. They forced their way through the hedge, and when she couldn't show them the trick, they got a bit carried away trying to stop the little freak doing it."
Hermione's eyes were huge in the firelight; Ron looked slightly sick. Aberforth stood up, tall as Albus, and suddenly terrible in his anger and the intensity of his pain.
"It destroyed her, what they did: She was never right again....And my father went after the bastards that did it and attacked them."
A little extreme for beating someone up, don't you think? The reactions from all the characters indicate that she was raped.
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Posts: 267 · Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 267

From the text, I guess it could come across as rape and whatever, but I don't think so, still.

My support
three Muggle boys
I believe that she [jk] meant that they were actually little boys. They asked her to show the trick [maybe a group like dudleys] and she couldn't control it so they beat her up, viciously...it doesn't have to be so over the top the completely destroy someone, especially at the age of 6. Rape is traumatizing, but you also should realize how a beating would be just as traumatizing. I mean, i think if JKR is open to use Bastard and whatnot and tries to hide rape from the younger readers just doesn't make sense to me. I believe they did just beat her up...badly.
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Posts: 711 · Joined: Aug 12, 2007 Posts: 711

o and gendelwald killed her or was it dumbldore
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