Question About Harry's Gift To Mr. Weasley

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
> <gbannister10@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op@> wrote:
> >  
> > Tonks:
> > > The real question is what is the deeper meaning of all of this. 
> What 
> > > is the symbolic meaning??? What is Rowling trying to say?
> > > 
> > > Tonks_op
> > 
> > Geoff:
> > Sometimes a screwdriver is just a screwdriver.
> > (With acknowledgments to Sigmund Freud)
> 
> Tonks:
> lol. I knew you (or someone) was going to say that. I was thinking 
> about the wire and what it does. Why fuse wire? Energy?? 

Geoff:
Well, in the days before miniature circuit-breakers were the norm, 
every sensible household had a collection of various thicknesses of 
fuse wire stowed in a drawer somewhere to be searched for when a 
fuse blew.