[HPforGrownups] Re: Ton-tongue Dudley

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 145345

festuco:
> 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.

Magpie:

That is Muggle-baiting, imo (and also Arthur's opinion).  It is teasing 
Muggles, who lack the ability to do magic, with magic.  To use a real world 
analogy, if my child knows a blind person it is unacceptable for them to 
play tricks on that person using their blindness against him whether or not 
you're doing it because the person is blind.

festuco:
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.

Magpie:

Practical jokes are very often sadistic. I'm also noticing a trend toward a 
pseudoinnocence defense of the twins, one that seems to suggests they're 
seriously far behind in their mental development when it comes to this kind 
of thing, and I just don't see that in them.  Not caring is not the same as 
not knowing.

-m