Weasley Types (was Molly and Arthur )

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 125466


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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.  


Tonks here:
I agree that the Twin should not have done anything to Percy at 
work. When reading the books I don't think the Twins are so bad. But 
if they were real people I would not like them. Practical jokes are 
just cruel ways to hurt other people and try to get away with it by 
saying *it was just a joke*. Practical jokes IMO are attacks. They 
are not funny and are an act of aggression.

Tonks_op