The best way to nip rumors and suspicion in the bud was to clarify the truth.
But judging by the progress Flitwick, Minerva, and Bill Weasley had made so far, it was already quite good if they could break the spell and rescue Phoebe from the painting. And as time passed, people became more easily misled by false information. Many people only used what they believed to judge matters, even though there was merely correlation between them, not causation.
Since rumors stopped with the wise, then what was correlation, and what was causation?
Pomona felt that a group of children whose oldest members were only seventeen probably could not tell the difference. Their situation at school would affect their parents, which was why she had stepped in so forcefully.
The profession of social worker was unfamiliar to most happy people. They mainly provided professional social work services for vulnerable, special, and marginalized groups.
Take Harry Potter, for example. He was an orphan whose parents had both died. Although he had been placed in his aunt's care, a social worker should, in theory, have visited to check on Harry's living conditions. If Petunia had abused him like Cinderella's stepmother, there should have been a system to intervene.
This was a capitalist society, not a feudal one. Welfare and social security systems existed.
In Australia, some social workers had proposed a "practical method" called Recipe of Life, using the metaphor of food to treat the mind.
Food could not only strengthen the body, but also nourish the spirit. But that suited individual cases. There was a boy in Hufflepuff who was also an orphan. His father had died young, while his mother and grandmother had perished in a fire. His problem could be dealt with later.
Naturally, capitalist countries viewed things through