Bad valentines

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 52336

>Also, just thinking practically, I don't have a boyfriend or husband, don't 
>plan on getting one, but thinking of the women I know who do, I can't think 
>of a one who would lovingly call his eyes as "green as a fresh pickled 
>toad."  Green as emeralds, green as the forest in Spring, whatever.  But 
>not as a fresh pickled toad!  Or his hair as dark as a blackboard.  Dark as 
>the night, etc.  But a blackboard?  How romantic are pickled toads and 
>blackboards?

"Lovers, make moan;
his eyes were green as leeks." (Shakespeare, *A Midsummer Night's Dream*)

Of course, this was in the parody "play within a play."

Yes, it could have been Draco, but I think it was much more likely to have 
been the joke-loving Fred and George. It's just their style, including the 
fresh pickled toads (which, as you correctly point out, no one who was 
trying to be romantic would use).


Janet Anderson

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