"Lapdog" and "snivel"

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 114930


Dharma wrote:
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> "Snivellus" was also very clear to me upon first reading.  The 
name  implied very strongly to me someone who was borderline 
cowardly and likely to blither and whine in an annoying way.  
> 
>snip


Potioncat:
I know better, but I'm going to anyway.

I'm going to add one more item to this fascinating discussion of the 
nuances of "snivelling."  Never would have noticed it, but it jumped 
out at me on the plane to SC.

SS/PS chpt 3
Vernon has been driving all over creation, they've stayed in a hotel 
one night Dudley has just asked if his father has gone mad. (Dudley 
is 11 years old):

It started to rain. Great drops beat on the roof of the car.  Dudley 
sniveled.

"It's Monday," he told his mother.  "The great Humberto's on 
tonight.  I want to stay somewhere with a television."



Neville cries in SS too: he sniffles, makes a snuffling sound and 
sobs.  

Potioncat (who sometimes doesn't know when to quit.)