The Train Stomp vs. Dissin' The Slyths WAS Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: House points

[dumbledore11214 <dumbledore11214@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51310

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ferer <jferer at y...>" 
<jferer at y...> wrote:
> Tarnished? After what Draco and his cronies said? No way. They 
showed
> admirable restraint.

Absolutely, when I was reading this scene, I was cheering the Trio 
and Fred and George almost without reservations. That was not a 
teacher turning Draco into ferret, Draco and his cronies provoked the 
Trio and got what they deserved, in my opinion. (Well, maybe walking 
over them was a little too much).
Trio and twins only reacted to provocation. It does not make them 
evil in my book.
 
> Take it down to the scene on the train. I can't imagine 99.99999% of
> the people on Earth being able to endure that provocation - gloating
> over the murder of a good person? It's monstrous, and unquestionably
> "fighting words," (a legally recognized concept of words so
> provocative a reasonable person can't be expected to endure them). 

I know I would not be able to keep silence, if provoked like that.