[HPforGrownups]Toasting Cedric

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 17123

Heidi wrote:
>Canon says that everyone did stand when Dumbledore toasted Diggory, even 
>the
>slytherins. What some of the slytherins did *not* do was toast Harry.

Quite right, my mistake.  But the point stands.

> > My personal response to the points raised in the article is
> > "so what?"  Show
> > me a classic of children's (or any other) literature where
> > our hero or
> > heroine wins out by trusting adults to make all the decisions, strict
> > adherence to rules and regulations and never, ever conceals
> > anything and
> > I'll show you a *very* dull book.
>Now I'm verging offtopic, and if anyone wants to discuss Children's Books
>From The Mid 1900's, please join me on HP-OT-Chatter...I've been rereading
>old Bobbsey Twins books recently, and oh my goodness, those children in the
>first round of books (I believe they are vintage 1900, and a description 
>can
>be found at http://pw2.netcom.com/~drmike99/bobbsey.html) trusted the 
>adults
>to make all the decisions, but even the good kids - Nan and Bert, the older
>twins, especially, didn't have strict adherence to the rules if asking to 
>go
>outside the bounds was beneficial (plus, they were really racist, but it 
>was
>1900, so what can you do?). And compared to most any book published these
>days, they really were *very* dull books.

Quite :)

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