[HPforGrownups] hello and a question about HP in schools

[heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 1804



"B." wrote:

> My question is about teaching HP in schools, specifically about Dudley. The
> books are so fun and imaginative, but I found the description of Dudley's
> weight jarring, and for a fat child to be sitting in a classroom while
> Dudley's fatness is equated with being an unpleasant person, and set up for
> ridicule, must be very upsetting.

Oh, possibly, but I really hope not. I mean, Ernie MacMillan is described as a
pudgy in Book 2, and Mrs Weasley is described as, well, more or less padded -
and the Weasley Twins are described as "like a pair of bludgers" and "stocky"
at different points in the books.
I would hope (and I say this as someone who was a little on the padded side
when younger (and teased mericlessly for it at summer camp)) that it doesn't
happen - of course, knowing how evil 9 to 14 year olds can be.....