[HPforGrownups] Re: muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[rebecca]

No: HPFGUIDX 155302

>Marion Ros said;


> Just my two cents on the whole matter:
>
>snip>

> These sadistic little twerps have a *history* of feeding younger kids 
> harmful sweets, and it has nothing to do >with justice, whatsoever.
> They've also have a history of tormenting younger children and animals. 
> Strange that those who claim that Dudley Dursley *deserved* to be tortured 
> by the Twins because it was karmic justice do not clamour for karmic 
> justice to hit the Twins, the biggest, baddest, unrepentested bullies of 
> them all!
>
>
> Marion (who thinks that Percy Weasley is the only healhty member of that 
> whole horrid family)

Rebecca:

IMO, Dudley didn't have to pick up the toffee and eat it.  He did so because 
he is a glutton which, if I'm not mistaken, is one of the 7 deadly sins in 
some circles. Choices, choices, they do come to mean something, don't they?

The Twins sadists? I don't believe where I see in canon where they take 
pleasure in inflicting pain?   In youth, the Twins are immature, intelligent 
and bored, perhaps. They're experimenting, not torturing, and they only 
tempted a gluttonous Dudley. Why someone would pick up something that fell 
out of someone's pocket he didn't know and put it in his mouth is beyond me, 
but hey, to each his own :)

I might mention that the Twins appear to respect and honor their parents, 
which is far more than Percy has displayed. His loyalty appears to be to 
himself and his ambition, turning his back on his family. It appears by the 
description above that the Twins out-weigh Lord Voldemort on the 
morality/judgment scale.  Personally, I don't think that's the case.

Rebecca