"Lines" (was: Double standards... what about Umbridge?)

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 125496


Thursday, March 3, 2005, 4:48:27 PM, vmonte wrote:

v> I don't know what JKR had in mind introducing
v> it. I mean I agree with Rebecca that we were supposed to feel sick
v> while reading it, but besides that I am not sure whether it advanced
v> plot much or not.

I got the feeling that Jo disdained the concept of "Lines" as a standard
school punishment (the Mother of All "Busywork"), and was just trying
to come up with as hideous a satire of it as she could think of.

-- 
Dave