Sinistra & Moody's dance

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 8552

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 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
> _____________________________________
> 


of course, that is exactly what I meant, Neil, you must have read my 
mind