[HPforGrownups] Re: Weasley Types (was Molly and Arthur )

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 125449

> I don't think--and I may be a crowd of one on this--that the twins 
> were particularly HORRIBLE to Percy. Yes, they teased him and yes, 
> they made fun of him, but I don't know that what they did to him 
> rose to the standard of an "attack."
> 
> -Joe in SoFla


I think the twins' pranking of Percy did increase in severity as the
series advanced and that it reflected the increasing severity of
their pranking overall.  

Personally I think they went over the line when they sent him the
dragon dung at the office.  Pranking at home is one thing; going
outside the home to Percy's place of employment was quite another.  

Pranking and practical jokes are not a light-hearted thing; they're
funny tricks (to those not on the receiving end of them) designed to
deflate someone or in some other way disconcert them.  There really
is nothing friendly in being pranked; notice that the twins don't
prank their friends in the series.  Showing off their pranking
products is different; people know in advance that somethings
supposed to happen.  (Although Hermione was right to come down on
them for experimenting on first-years.)

Just because Percy didn't dissolve into tears in front of Harry
doesn't mean that he didn't have feelings.

Magda

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