Wand Work (was Tom Felton: ...But What Word?)

[Steve]

---  "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
>
> ---  "potioncat" <willsonkmom@>
> wrote:
> 
> > BTW, is it innuendo if the speaker didn't intend any 
> > sub-meaning? I didn't pick up on any sly use of wands by 
> > the characters
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Neither did I :-). I'm pretty sure that the characters don't
> mean anything *like that* in the books, and any innuendo we
> may see there is accidental :-). 
>
> When Ron gives Harry a book about girls, ..., he says 
> something like "it's not all about the wandwork, you know". 
> Certainly he can't mean it the way I understand it, with my
> dirty mind :-). Those books are rather innocent in this sense
> :-).
>

bboyminn:

But, I think that is exactly how it was intended. What could
Ron possibly mean? That catching girls is all about spell
casting? That doesn't make much moral, legal, or logical sense.

So, I think 'wand work' means exactly what you think it means.
But I also think that more /innocent/ minds will see more
innocent meanings in it. Though I have no doubt that there
were a lot of giggling and snickering junior high kids when
they read that. 

That makes it the perfect double entendre, it has innocent 
meaning to innocent minds, and not-so-innocent meaning to 
the more not-so-innocent minds. Either you get it or you
don't. 

Just a thought.

steve/bboyminn