Humor(and Malcolm Baddock)

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

No: HPFGUIDX 34562

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "ssk7882" <theennead at a...> wrote:

> Then, I've never much cared for the twins. (snip) And *hissing* 
> poor little eleven-year-old Malcolm Baddock at the Sorting 
> Ceremony, just because he got sorted into Slytherin.  
> (SNIP) they start to hiss at you.  As if they *hate* you, or 
> something!  And you've never even *met* them before!
> 
> Sheesh.  Poor little Malcolm Baddock.

It is to be hoped that Malcolm is from an old Slytherin family, so he 
understands (from parents or older siblings telling him) that 
Gryffindors and Slytherins hate each other, so being booed by the 
Gryffindors is only typical Gryffindor nasty behavior. I imagine that 
a Muggle-born student would not have a pleasant time with bigotted 
Slytherins and that a wizard-born student would not have a pleasant 
time with non-Slytherin parents who learned that heesh had been 
Sorted into Slytherin. JKR surely intended "Malcolm Baddock" (MAL... 
BAD...) to be a Slytherin name.