Etiquette WAS Re: polite Dumbledore?/ Smart glasses with mead

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 142761

> Betsy Hp:
<SNIP of the whole post basically>
> And here's the thing.  I enjoyed Dumbledore's rudeness for the most 
> part.  His wit was amusing, and I enjoyed seeing Vernon get cut down 
> to size and Petunia embarrassed.  It was the head banging that 
> bothered me.  I thought it a bit beneath Dumbledore, frankly.  


Alla:

Oh, I meant to bring up this question about the glasses. I am NOT 
saying it to defend Dumbledore,because as I said earlier to me he does 
not need defending in this scene, quite the contrary. I am simply 
curious.

Are you saying that Dumbledore charmed  the glasses to knock Dursleys 
over the head? I was quite sure that glasses behaved that way out of 
their own volition, well sort of, simply because Dursleys did not 
drink them.

I mean, I don't think that glasses fully think for  themselves, but I 
was quite sure that magical objects have certain freedom of movement 
so to speak.

I cannot say with certainty, but I speculate that Dumbledore only 
charmed glasses to offer Dursleys a drink, nothing more and glasses 
simply took it one step further, so to speak.

I am just speculating of course, but I cannot help but think that 
while in CoS Molly flicks her wand at dishes before they begin to 
clean themselves, I doubt that anybody charmed the mirror at the 
Burrow to yell at Harry.

" Harry got a shock the first time he looked in the mirror over the 
kitchen mantelpiece and it shouted, "Tuck your shirt in, scruffy!" - 
CoS, p.42, paperback.

I thought that was mirror's idea to try and make Harry look better. :-)


JMO,

Alla