Is Tickling Not On?

[grannybat84112]

Boggles balked:
> >
> >This got me thinking...Harry's never been tickled.
> 
> Do you really think so?  To me, Dudley seems like the sort of bully 
> who'd take great delight in tickling someone until they were 
> screaming, simply because he could pass it off as "aw, I wuz only 
> tickling him - he wasn't hurting or anything."
> 
> Then again, tickling for me is either pure sadistic torture or a  
> sort of S&Mish foreplay, *never* just good clean fun - 

Uh, staying away from speculation on your private life...I was 
thinking of tickling purely as a rush of endorphin-producing fun that 
the ticklers stop just as soon as (preferably before) the ticklee 
indicates that the action has turned scary. Physicality that turns 
into assault is not an expression of honest affection.

I specifically excluded Hagrid's physical affections because, well 
meaning though he may be, the big lug always ends up hurting whomever 
he hugs. Dudley I never even considered; his father outright 
encourages him to hit Harry, so he doesn't have to disguise any 
attack as tickling. Well, maybe when they were on the playground in 
Muggle school together and a teacher came over....

Grannybat
who misses
chilhood innocence