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

[vmonte]

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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.


Dave wrote
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.

vmonte now:
Hi Dave. The above quote you've attributed to me is not mine. 

But I do like your idea of Umbridge's punishment as a satire 
of "line" work.  It makes sense.


Vivian