The Twins / Weasleys / Percy

[festuco]

No: HPFGUIDX 145255

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03"
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

> Betsy Hp:
> I was unclear, sorry.  I'm talking about the Christmas gnome:
> 
> "Fred, George, Harry, and Ron were the only ones who knew that the 
> angel on top of the tree was actually a garden gnome that had bitten 
> Fred on the ankle as he pulled up carrots for Christmas dinner.  
> Stupefied, painted gold, stuffed into a miniature tutu and with 
> small wings glued to its back, it glowered down at them all, the 
> ugliest angel Harry had ever seen, with a large bald head like a 
> potato and rather hairy feet." (HBP p.329-330)
> 
> It struck me as a rather involved and sadistic sort of revenge for a 
> gnome behaving like a gnome.  Though JKR may just have meant it for 
> humor.  Again, it didn't work for me, sent up a few warning flares, 
> etc.  But it may have just been me.  
> 
Gerry

I agree, it made me feel really uncomfortable too. Bit if you want to
make Fred and George sadistic people because of this, then so are
Harry and Ron, because they do nothing to prevent it or to excgange
the gnome for the real angel. 

Gerry