Brit Rant: The Other Harry - Big TO DO...

msbeadsley msbeadsley at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 21 07:50:03 UTC 2005


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> 
wrote:
> Actually, I'm beginning to think the *only* thing he did wrong was 
> not to realise the trouble he was going to cause himself and his 
> family in the event of being photographed like that.

That, too! I imagine there must have been some rebellion mixed up in 
there, considering all the elocution and deportment classes the poor 
boy must have suffered through.

> Don't people regularly go to costume parties dressed as monsters?  
> I'm partly of Slovak descent; if I saw someone dressed up as 
> Stalin, I'd think Stalin deserved to be made fun of that way.  I'm 
> Catholic; if I saw someone dressed up as the devil, or a Borgia 
> pope, I'd think the devil and Boria deserved to be made fun of, 
> too.  It's because they all had a seriously overinflated opinion of 
> themselves and their desires.

These all strike me as different, for reasons I think best not gone 
into here. There are nearly infinite better choices, some of which 
you mentioned. IMHO.

Sandy, who might have been Jewish in a former life if that's allowed







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