[HPforGrownups] Slytherin's behavior at the GoF final feast (was Re: Dumbledore's awarding of points PS/SS)

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 57099


--- darrin_burnett <bard7696 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Tell me, when the coach asked you to foul, did you
> just wrap the 
> person up to get the foul called or did you hit the
> person over the 
> head and then try to tell the ref you thought the
> player's head was 
> the ball? My guess is the first, since basketball
> has the technical 
> foul rule, so if you get too out-of-hand, you won't
> get the ball back.
> 

You're applying Muggle "rules" and concepts of injury
to the wizarding world, which is a little unfair to
do, as they clearly don't and can't see injuries to
things like arms in the same way we do. I mean, if you
knew that breaking someone's arm would result in a few
unplesant minutes with some medicine, would you have
as much of a compunction against breaking it, or would
it be considered, in your world, to be closer to the
equal of a bruise? 

=====
heidi tandy

They say its a sign of mental health to hold apparently contradictory ideas in your mind. The world of late has been a particularly exotic stew of horror and beauty. There are killers, there are saints. The trick is to find the right spot on the spectrum between abject despair and total obliviousness. And then carry on...
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