Profanity - Harry too

[mcandrew at bigpond.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 19719

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Milz" <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "M. Barnett" <fyregirl at c...> wrote:
> > When Ron told Draco to "Eat slugs" I was thinking that it meant 
> > something along the lines of, pardon the american vulgarity, "Eat 
> > sh*t".  
> 
> That was my impression too, considering it came after 
> Malfoy's "Mudblood" slur. I can't recall the exact book(s) where Ron 
> has used some type of profanity, but I remember one passage said 
> something to the effect that Hermione exclaimed "Ron!" after Ron used some sort of profanity. Then there was another passage in which 
> Malfoy says something like "language Weasley".


Definitely. I'm sure a lot of bad language flies around Hogwarts, that 
is not reported by JKR because of her young audience.  I think Ron's 
reported profanity happened in PoA, when he had just got detention 
from Snape because he stood up for Hermione when Snape picked on her 
in the DADA class (where Snape was standing in for the sick Prof. 
Lupin), and then he found out his detention task was to scrub out the 
bedpans in the hospital wing, in Muggle fashion - without magic.

I don't think Harry is averse to a bit of schoolboy bad language 
either.  In one of the books (can't remember where) he remarks to 
Malfoy something about Malfoy's mother always looking 'as if she has 
dung under her nose'.  I can't imagine that Harry really used the word 
'dung' - I think JKR was just being very polite about what he really 
said!

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