Something Small

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 92773

<<<In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" wrote:...which 
sounds sufficiently terrifying for Dean to be afraid of it. The only 
hitch is that he's a Muggle-born and may not have heard of the hand 
of glory.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says

Anybody with any familiarity with the occult, whether it be from 
reading, horror movies, or a loony maiden aunt, would know about the 
Hand. And if Dean's ethnicity is not just a gloss for American 
readers (apparently it's not mentioned in the UK editions that he's 
Black), he's probably of Jamaican extraction, which means that he has 
at least one elderly female relative, if not his grandmother, who 
messes around with roots and herbs.

Also, I am reminded of street magician David Blaine, who almost got 
beat up in Haiti when he did his best trick, levitation (they wanted 
to know who he was working for). He said he should have known 
Haitians would not be impressed by magic as they all know their 
grandmothers can fly.

--JDR