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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Hall" <shall at s...> wrote:

> 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.

     A valid point - but maybe we should give the twins a little 
credit here, it seems the engorgement spell elongates but does not 
thicken the tongue thus not cutting off the windpipe. 

  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 

    *Snicker* what a description of a Dementor!

  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?

    Sirius isn't evil but it does bother me that even now, when he's 
all grown up, he *still* doesn't seem to realize the seriousness of 
what he tried to do. Frankly Snape has a right to hold a grudge here, 
he could have been killed - or at the very least cursed with an 
incurable affliction. Not to mention how poor Lupin would have felt 
when he returned to normal!

    BTW: Hello all from a two week old HP fan ;)