[HPforGrownups] Favourite Quotes and/or Scenes...

[Susan Hall]

No: HPFGUIDX 25319

>(From Back to the Burrow in GoF where Gred and Forge plant the ton-tongue
toffee for Dudley on the way out makes me laugh every time I read it)

>Aunt Petunia hurled herself onto the ground beside Dudley, seized the end
of his swollen tongue and attempted to wrench it out of his moth;
>unsurprisingly, Dudley yelled and spluttered worse than ever, trying to
fight her off. Uncle Vernon was bellowing and waving his arms around, and
>Mr. Weasley had to shout to make himself heard.

I've never understood why the Ton-Tongue Toffee doesn't get up there in the
list of "supposedly hilarious pranks with a fair chance of killing the
victim" - if you didn't have someone on hand with both the skills and the
presence of mind to reverse the engorgement charm or, alternatively, if
Muggle, to do the emergency tracheotomy thing with the ball point pen that
first aiders all seem to be panting for an opportunity to try I should have
thought that there was a real chance of someone suffocating.  Can I add it
in as a third example to consider, next time we are arguing about the
comparative evils of dressing up as the personification of clinical
depression to scare someone into a fifty foot fall   and sending someone
down a tunnel to meet your best friend whose having a bad bout of HSS (Hairy
Snout Syndrome), and whether the perpetrators of the above are evil or not?

Susan