"Pick your own mistletoe" question.

[kempermentor]

> 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" :-)? 

Kemper now:
I don't remember that passage, but when I think of 'gate' I almost always think of an archway.  So, if there's an archway, then I'm guessing that Xeno or Luna or Luna's mom hang/hung mistletoe from it.  You don't write if there was mistletoe hanging or not and maybe it wasn't specified in the book, but my thought if it wasn't specified then it must not have been there.  And if it wasn't there, then somebody must have stolen it. 

So 'Pick Your Own Mistletoe' is a Lovegood euphemism for 'Get your own gd mistletoe you cheap bastard'.

Kemper