muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[shagufta_naazpk2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 155185

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
 
> Betsy Hp:
> This is where you lose me.  It's bad for Lucius to bait muggles 
and 
> his own son, who loves him very much, should turn his back on his 
> family because he father did such an evil thing.  However, when 
the 
> twins bait muggles, it's okay.

Hi 
I apologise if anyone else has already raised this point, i did read 
the entire thread, but sometimes, when the subject title is changed 
it doesnt come under the same thread.

In my opinion you are equating muggle baiting with muggle torture. 
Two very different things, IMO.
Throwing sweets on the floor and hoping someone will pick them up 
may be termed muggle baiting. But then Dudley had no business 
picking and eating things that dont belong to him. By that token if 
a burlglar gets a shock from an electric fence, would you blame that 
home owner of burglar-baiting..:D
But anyways, I'll give you muggle-baiting for Fred and George, what 
Lucius did was Muggle-torture plain and simple. He did not 'bait' 
them, or trick them; he and his cronies went into the muggle tents 
leviated them and displayed them for the world to see. Torture and 
humiliation plain and simple.
Lucius and his friends are in a whole different league to Fred and 
George and i dont thinki its fair to compare their actions.

cheers
Shagufta
(long time lurker)