The wages of gluttony.

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 145364

Magpie: 

"One of my off-the-wall and off-the-cuff analogies, that I hope makes
sense and doesn't offend anyone: Let's say I'm a white explorer and I
encounter indigenous Americans for the first time and give them
alcohol.  They drink it and fall down drunk or get sick and think they
are going to die.  Well, I know they aren't going to die.  I think
it's a great practical joke, all my friends laugh at it. Look at the
funny Indians."

Not a good analogy.  The Indians had no idea that the White Man was not to be
trusted.  Dudley knows that wizards are not to be trusted--he's had that dinned
into him since he was old enough to understand anything.  Even if he didn't know
what the toffee would do for him, he knew, or should have known, that SOMETHING
unpleasant would happen; the last time he ran afoul of a wizard, he got stuck
with a pig's tail.  No, he had nothing to blame the engorgement of his tongue
than his own gluttony.

And besides, considering how mean he's been to Harry all these years, it is high
time that something nasty should happen to him.

BAW


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