Longbottom's Torture to Insanity (Re: candy)

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No: HPFGUIDX 109990

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dcgmck" <dolis5657 at y...> 
wrote:

> I like the positive spin on this, even though I tend to frown at 
> parents who let their children grow up believing that candy is 
>one .of  the major food groups.  ;->  If, in fact, Alice is no 
>longer playing  with a full deck, then candy as nourishment makes 
>sense.  

   Actually I was thinking of candy in a symbolic sense.  In Canada 
we have a phrase "eye candy" for something yummy to look at, 
and "brain candy" for something that is mentally pleasurable or 
stimulating.  It seems to me that the candy is used in the books as 
a symbol of joy or fun.  Harry NEVER gets candy from his aunt or 
uncle, but does get candy at Hogwarts or from his friends. Food, I 
think, is an important symbol in the books; celebration, comunity, 
friendship is expressed in food, as is emotional denial and 
starvation (re Harry's muggle family)
 
> One of the nice things about fantasy is its relative freedom from 
>the constraints of muggle world realities such as cavities, 
>dentists' drills, sugar highs and lows, stomach aches, and 
>malnutrition.  Clearly JKR is either like my disgusting friends 
>with high  metabolisms and stick figures or she is one of the 
>world's many sugar 
>junkies herself... :-)

      Not a sugar junkies in my view, but definately hooked on 
positive relationships.

Jeanette