[HPforGrownups] Re: James, a paragon of virtue? Was: Why Do You Like Sirius?

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 123462

Alex Boyd wrote:
> 
> Betsey wrote:
> 
> > So a five year difference, which suggests that Lucius (who I'm sure
> > led his own little band of brothers) probably had little to do with
> > the snot-nosed Mauraders.  Snape may have been his... I can't recall
> > the term, but an underclassman who becomes a sort of servant to the
> > upperclassmen - if Hogwarts even had such a tradition.
> 
> The word you're searching for, Betsey, is...erm....close your eyes if
> easilly offended...fag.

And to continue this thought:  no, we don't see any indication in
the books of the practice Betsey described, which is called
"fagging."


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>