Kan Hogwarts lärare få träffa elever?

Nej. Som alltid suger filmerna.

Dumbledore skulle först och främst aldrig tillåta detta. Observera hans reaktion i bok 5, när Umbridge berör en student.

Professor Umbridge seized Marietta, pulled her round to face her and began shaking her very hard.

A split second later Dumbledore was on his feet, his wand raised; Kingsley started forwards and Umbridge leapt back from Marietta, waving her hands in the air as though they had been burned.

"I cannot allow you to manhandle my students, Dolores," said Dumbledore and, for the first time, he looked angry.

Det är värt att notera detta är bara andra gången i serien Dumbledore har drabbat sin trollstav hotfullt (den andra var att rädda Harry i slutet av bok 4). Det tar mycket - och jag menar mycket - för att få Dumbledore arg tillräckligt för att armarna sig, och det verkar vidröra sina elever är en av dem.

Som en sidotal - det här är delvis varför Goblet of Fire-scenen är så hatad. Det är en direkt motsättning till den karaktär vi ser i böckerna, som aldrig någonsin skulle agera så hotande mot en elev.

Eller du kan notera att Dumbledore slutade Filch från att skada studenter fysiskt.

A highly polished collection of chains and manacles hung on the wall behind Filch's desk. It was common knowledge that he was always begging Dumbledore to let him suspend students by their ankles from the ceiling.

Du kan också notera reaktionen på Moody's ferretstraff i bok 4, men jag tror fortfarande att Dumbledores karaktär är det starkare beviset.

"Teach ...­ Moody, is that a student?" shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms.

"Yep," said Moody.

"No!" cried Professor McGonagall, running down the stairs and pulling out her wand; a moment later, with a loud snapping noise, Draco Malfoy had reappeared, lying in a heap on the floor with his sleek blond hair all over his now brilliantly pink face. He got to his feet, wincing.

"Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!" said Professor McGonagall weakly. "Surely Professor Dumbledore told you that?"

"He might've mentioned it, yeah," said Moody, scratching his chin unconcernedly, "but I thought a good sharp shock ...­"

Lärare fick fysiskt straffa studenter vid några tillfällen.

Kort tid i år 5 var kroppsstraff tillåtet under Umbridge

Filch elbowed his way closer to Umbridge, almost crying with happiness.

‘I’ve got the form, Headmistress,’ he said hoarsely, waving the piece of parchment Harry had just seen him take from her desk.

‘I’ve got the form and I’ve got the whips waiting ... oh, let me do it now ...’

‘Very good, Argus,’ she said. ‘You two,’ she went on, gazing down at Fred and George, ‘are about to learn what happens to wrong- doers in my school.’

och senare

Filch prowled the corridors with a horsewhip ready in his hands, desperate to catch miscreants, but the problem was that there were now so many of them he never knew which way to turn.

År 7 var det också tillåtet, under Death Eaters

‘Do you know about the Carrows?’

‘Those two Death Eaters who teach here?’ ‘They do more than teach,’ said Neville. ‘They’re in charge of all discipline. They like punishment, the Carrows.’

‘Like Umbridge?’

‘Nah, they make her look tame. The other teachers are all supposed to refer us to the Carrows if we do anything wrong. They don’t, though, if they can avoid it. You can tell they all hate them as much as we do.

‘Amycus, the bloke, he teaches what used to be Defence Against the Dark Arts, except now it’s just the Dark Arts. We’re supposed to practise the Cruciatus Curse on people who’ve earned detentions –’