muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 155375

> 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".

I guess I interpreted the text as presenting "muggle baiting" as a
term of art, rather than breaking it down to the individual words and
using their dictionary definitions.

random832.