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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Harry Potter]]'', himself is a victim of this. Surely locking a child in his room and refusing to let him out breaks ''some'' law. For that matter, did Social Services even know where he was, or do Wizards have the power to just stick people with horrible families with no oversight from Muggle government?
** Given that Harry attended Muggle primary school until eleven years of age he ''had'' to exist officially within the system -- the Dursleys could not have enrolled him in school without the relevant paperwork. At this point one is left wondering whether or not every single mandated reporter lil' Harry ever encountered (teachers, school nurses, pediatricians, etc.) was ''blind deaf and dumb''.
** If you saw a sickly little boy who regularly looked like something bigger than a dog had been seriously mauling him, would you try and do something about it? Because if so, it seems that you think differently than any of Lupin's neighbors did when he was growing up. He never mentions this having been a downside of being a werewolf, which makes it a fairly reasonable assumption that nobody responded to what would have looked like some form of abuse from the outside.
*** Lupin's parents were almost certainly wizards, as a Muggle family would neither have much opportunity to be exposed to a werewolf attack (at least, none that left any ''survivors'') nor have the facilities to care for a child inflicted with lycanthropy. Which means they almost certainly raised him in isolation, as his condition would need to be kept secret from the rest of wizarding society.
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