Did Hagrid nearly killed Draco? WAS: Re: Snape, Hagrid and Animals/

[a_svirn]

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colebiancardi:
 
> edited out your use of that word - your example is not even in the
> same catagory as oaf.  Oaf is an acceptable word, whereas your 
example
> of an insult is so much more than just an insult.  
> 
> both statements of the football coach would not be true.  I don't 
know
> any respectable person who uses that word unless they want to be 
mean,
> hateful and bigoted.  Oaf is not even in the same universe as that 
word
> 
> colebiancardi
> (who recognizes that there are insults and then there are INSULTS)

Well, yes it's certainly a MUCH bigger insult. But *oaf* is also an 
insult, and Draco used it to precisely because he wanted to be to 
be "mean,
hateful and bigoted".
a_svirn