Bat Bogey Hex

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 83556

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snapesmate" <snapesmate at h...> 
wrote:

Lynette:

<snipped>

> Now, the bat-bogey hex...  according 
> to the definition from the Harry Potter Lexicon (http://www.hp-
> lexicon.org/spells_b.html#bat-bogey):  The bat-bogey hex engorges 
an 
> opponent's bogeys to bat size, gives them wings and sets them to 
> attacking his or her face.
> Lynnette, who thinks Snape is a good guy, even if he is not a nice 
> person!

Geoff:
Obviously I should find time to visit the Lexicon when I'm not trying 
to keep up with the volume of postings here.

My only comment to the definition of the Hex is:
Urrggh! 

As an aside, I only recently discovered that the US term is booger. I 
saw it on the subtitles for one of the HP DVDs and thought it was a 
typing error - it does sound a little like one of those English 
pejoratives which are not used in polite company.

Having read the thread on the psychoanalysis of COS, I am coming to 
the conclusion that I have either led a very sheltered life or am 
very naive (no suggestions please!). I have read the HP books for 
pleasure; am I unusual, because I must admit that I do not reach the 
end of a book and then start looking for hidden meanings and 
innuendos? I do find great interest and amusement in the various 
theories that are put forward as we read and re-read and compare 
notes and think that, if JKR has worked all those ideas into her 
plot, she must have spent years working out the inter-relationship of 
topics! But even so, I still like to read a book as a piece of 
narrative. Perhaps I should take a few days away from HPFGU and go 
and lie down quietly.

Geoff