[HPforGrownups] Sinistra & Moody's dance

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 8546

Naama said:

<<Don't you think that many people in their 50-60s would not feel
 comfortable dancing cheek to cheek with a person of their own
gender?>>

I said:

<<Well. not if they were both gay <g>.  I don't think Susan was
 suggesting that two elderly heterosexual men would be likely to do
a `Fred and Ginger' on the dancefloor, but I'm sure she will clarify>>.

Susan replied:

<<Now, Neil, don't make assumptions. I've seen Greek (heterosexual) men
dance cheek to cheek...let's not be ethnocentric...(this is meant not
too seriously)...there are some cultures where men and women do not
dance together....>>


According to GoF, Sinistra and Moody were described as indulging in "an
extremely ungainly two-step" (can you do a two-step with one leg?).

***
Suddenly, the music changed and the people dancing around the two Professors
were startled to see that they had charmed their robes into a semblance of
traditional Greek costume and moved into a slow, insistent pattern of steps,
their beefy arms linked across their shoulders.  Gradually, the stomping
pace increased - faster and faster and faster still - until Professor
Moody's wooden leg was gouging deep channels in the heavily-waxed floor.
Soon, the two men were locked in a frenzied finale, their sweaty jowls
pressed into a manly embrace.  The music reached its peak, and members of
the crowd were driven to smash expensive china plates and cheer; their eyes
wet with tears.

Nearby, Argus Filch stood, broom in hand, staring at the scene, muttering
something unmutterable under his breath...
***

Is that what you meant?

Neil
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