Poshness; Lucius Malfoy

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No: HPFGUIDX 5915

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> 
wrote:
>Lucius Malfoy is a puzzle to me:  If he is so class-conscious why 
> > would he associate himself with lunkheads like Crabbe and Goyle, 
> > and with McNair,

Crabbe and Goyle could be wealthy, pure-blood, upper-class wizards 
and still be idiots.  In muggle society there are plenty of rich 
morons.  Just because someone is from the upper classes (of any kind 
of society) doesnt mean they are smart.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:

> At this time, Westerners think that thinking it is fun to torture 
> people is mentally ill, but were our predecessors still attending 
> public hangings as a fun entertainment by one hundred years ago = 
> 1900? If not, they must only recently have given it up. And bear- 
> baiting, and Roman gladiatorial shows ....

Less than 100 years ago in the U.S.  I heard someone on the radio 
recently who researches lynchings of black people in the U.S. South 
in the early part of the 20th century.  White people used to attend 
them with picnics, collect clothing and other possessions of the 
victims, and send postcards.  The guy I heard on the radio collects 
the postcards and has written a book about it.  And certainly torture 
is something that still goes on, unfortunately, in many parts of the 
world.  There is a Counseling Center somewhere in Canada that 
specializes in treatment of torture victims.  We hairless apes can be 
very, very nasty little animals.