[HPforGrownups] Harry Not Crying

[Daibhaid & Lynne]

No: HPFGUIDX 32899

Eric said...
> Also, Harry is English---which also would discourage
> him from crying.  The
> English ideal (and any net.Englishmen or
> net.Englishwomen on here are
> welcome to correct me, but this is the impression I
> got while over there) is
> to display very little strong emotion---"that's for
> those bally wogs," and
> so on.  Sorrow and joy are both held in tightly, and
> anger, if shown at all,
> is supposed to come out in savage dry wit---think
> "Blackadder, really p*ssed
> off," or something like that.  The classic example is
> Lord Cardigan's
> scornful comment after the Charge of the Light Brigade
> about another
> officer, that he "screamed like a woman when he was
> hit," having just ridden
> back from the field over that officer's dead body.

(snippers)

FWIW not a correction but an addition. I'm Irish, we are an
emotional bunch anywho...sort of like the Scots in that manner.
:^) And we cry at good music, fine women/or men ;^), and drink.
But put our Irish up and look out! :^) The situation you are
bespeaking denotes the English class system I am of the mind as
depending first on where you happen to be, the feeling is that
the English gentry class don't do much of anything but breath,
and even that is doubtful at times. I love how it was put in the
book "Druids" by Morgan Llwellyn. "He even farts musically."  :^)

Daibh