[HPforGrownups] More on Ron

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 39532

Laura wrote:

>mutilating the image of someone is just a step away from hurting the 
> >actual person, IMO.  It shows serious lack of control.

I think tearing up a photo of someone is a harmless way to express 
frustration and anger at him.  It's hostile, but assuming it isn't done 
right in his face, it's not scary.  Not to me anyway.  I wouldn't like it if 
someone deliberately tore up a photo of me, but I wouldn't think the 
perpetrator must be headed for juvenile hall.

The model is more disturbing to us Muggles because to us it seems 
sentient--but it's not.  There are *thousands* of the things, just as there 
are thousands of posters of an animated Krum, most of which end up crumpled 
underfoot on the grimy campgrounds, like posters at a rally.  From Ron's 
(and Krum's) wizard POV, I doubt it is any more upsetting to see a moving 
photo destroyed than it is for us to see a Muggle photo destroyed.  Likewise 
the mass-produced figurines.

We could ask Rupert Grint, who is probably being chewed in effigy by babies 
around the globe as we speak.

Amy Z

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