muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 155341

> Jordan:
> Judging it to be wrong is one thing, but I still think, regardless 
> of that, you're misapplying the term "muggle-baiting".
> 
> Magpie:
> Ah, I see what you're saying.  So it's abuse of Muggles, but not 
> Muggle *baiting* which you see as a very specific thing, where you 
> trick Muggles with Magic and they keep thinking something weird is 
> going on and have no idea.  I can understand that--though I agree 
> with Pippin's explanation that Arthur is (correctly, imo) saying 
> that this undermines the spirit of his work against Muggle-baiting.
> 

a_svirn:
Well, I for one don't understand this objection. What the twins did is 
muggle-baiting in every possible sense, including the most literal 
one. After all, Dudley did swallow a bait that was, to quote the 
Bard, "on purpose laid to make the taker mad".