CHAPDISC: HBP7, The Slug Club

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 145833

> Potioncat:
> Well, it's just now dawned on me that Blaise's mother may have 
killed 
> 6 men. The book doesn't say that of course....I really should go 
read 
> that section before commenting.


And we shouldn't forget the presumption of innocence too! Take Bess 
of Hardwick, for instance. According to Walpole, 

Four times the nuptial bed she warmed,
And every time so well performed 
That when death spoilt each husband's billing
He left the widow every shilling. 

Of course seven dead husbands look a bit more suspicious than four. 
The last three must have been intrepid to the point of recklessness 
(Gryffindors, perhaps?)

a_svirn (sorry, if I misquoted Walpole inadvertently)