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

[jina haymaker]

No: HPFGUIDX 125510


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.

Dave:

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.


Jina:

I think that Jo was trying to relate something that we had to do in school (sometimes if we were that lucky) when we got in trouble. This was just a great form of punishment using the magic way, instead of the muggle way.