"Pick your own mistletoe" question.

[justcarol67]

zanooda:
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> I don't know for sure, but I thought it was a small gate, not the one that goes overhead :-). Anyway, there was no mistletoe hanging from the gate, but a couple of trees next to the house did have mistletoe growing on them.

> > kempermentor:
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> > So 'Pick Your Own Mistletoe' is a Lovegood euphemism for 'Get your own gd mistletoe you cheap bastard'.
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zanooda:
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> That's the point, I don't understand if it means, as you say, "go get your own, don't touch mine" or on the contrary it means an invitation to take his, kind of "you are welcome to take my mistletoe, but pluck it yourself" :-).
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Carol responds:
I'm sure Xeno means feel free to pick (pluck) pluck your own mistletoe. He also says (on a different sign on the same gate--BTW, I'm not picturing an archway but a door in a fence) something like, "Hands off the Dirigible Plums," so if he doesn't want people touching something, he's quite clear about it. Essentially, you can pick as much mistletoe as you want (the stuff has Nargles, or so he thinks), but he wants you to keep away from the Dirigible Plums, which he evidently has some use for or even considers valuable. For all we know, he enjoys eating along with Gulping Plimpies and Gurdyroot soup. Maybe the plums are the "pudding" (dessert).

Carol, who thinks that dinner with the Lovegoods is probably the Wizarding equivalent of tofu and bean sprouts