muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[bridge13219]

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Marion Ros said:
> > 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.


bridge13219:
Whoa!  Sadistic?  Torment?  Torture?  How about they're just stupid
kids?  Whatever adult situations they've faced already, they're
still kids.

Doesn't anybody have siblings?  My sisters didn't have acid pops or
the ability to transfigure my toys, but they would have if they
could (and vice versa).  They are, however, close to that arbitrary
age of majority at that point, still kids with bad/undeveloped
judgement skills.  I feel (however misguided their actions were)
they were demonstrating their loyalty to Harry as an honorary member
of the Weasley clan.