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"There, see? Everything relates to Defense," Tate said broadly, grinning a bit in the process. She'd actually managed to bring it home, which was very impressive.
"We can diverge from the subject for a moment, but just one moment, and pursue this line of thinking if you'd like. Does anyone have an opinion on Ms. Hollingberry's topic? Should witches and wizards be allowed to protect Muggles? Or more specially, are witches and wizards discouraged from doing that now?"
Glancing quickly at Marie, Jim smiled and looked back to the headmaster at the question, his hand going up.
"Definitely discouraged. Most people would stand by and not do anything if they saw muggles that needed help. Except, and I read a study about this and all, a lot of stories about Muggle superheroes apparently came from Witches and Wizards who had decided to go play vigilante, and the only surviving evidence after shoddy obliviation is in the inspiration for those comic book heroes and their place in muggle pop culture. But the thing is, even if someone did use magic to help a muggle, they'd likely obliviate them, and that might even be more harmful to the muggle than just leaving them to it in the first place."
And it WAS all because of the statute but.... "I like the statute. It'd be hard work to live without it, and I don't really care about what happens to random muggles either. If I knew them, it might be different." And Jim didn't like hard work if he could avoid it, or making effort to go meet random muggles.