[HPFGU-OTChatter] "Pick your own mistletoe" question.

[Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force)]

[Zanooda]:
| One of the signs on the gate of Xeno Lovegood's house says 
| "Pick Your Own Mistletoe". What the word "pick" means here? 
| Is it like "pluck, gather" or is it like "select, choose" :-)? Thanks,

[Lee]:
It could be both, first selecting and then plucking or gathering, especialy
if one believes as Xeno does that mistletoe has nargles. <Grin>  Probably
JKR means the plucking / gathering.

I know when we went with a friend of ours to bring in a Christmas tree one
year, he had a bunch of pines on his property.  So our "picking" was,
indeed, selecting and then cutting it down.  And it was cold out there on
that flatbed! :-)

Go for the plucking; that's probably the best rendering.

Peace,

Lee

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