Ton-tongue Dudley

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No: HPFGUIDX 145342

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at a...> wrote:

> Magpie:
> 
> Um, well, that would probably be the bully response, that it was the 
> victim's fault--as if the twins' intentionally dropping the candy
there so 
> that someone would pick it up and eat it means nothing in the face of 
> someone falling for the trap--but it doesn't speak to Betsy's or
Arthur's 
> point which is that pranking Muggles/Muggle-baiting is bad news and 
> something he tries to stop.  

But it was not Muggle-baiting. Like they said: they did not give it to
him because he was a Muggle, but because he was a bullying git. It was
a practical joke, nothing sadistic there and nothing in the scene
suggests that they realized just how much worse such a thing would be
for someone not used to magic.

Gerry