muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 155400

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sydney" <sydpad at ...> wrote:
> 
> Sydney:
> 
> What I wonder is, why on earth aren't the twins in Slytherin?  They
> are by far the most Slytherinish of the kids we've met, certainly 
way more so than Crabbe or Goyle, or even Draco who could stand to 
brush up on his cunning and ambition. 
[snip]  
> They're Griffindorish in that they seem to have no fear, but 
there's nothing remotely chivalrous about them.  The word that would 
leap to mind with the ton-tongue toffee incident is "dishonourable", 
using magic like that on a muggle seems like a big man striking a 
woman, which no matter how shrewish she was isn't exactly noble.  If 
JKR was looking to paint a picture of the "good Slytherin", surely 
it would look much like the twins?

Steven1965aaa:

No Slytherin would have given away the Maurauders Map without 
getting back something in return. They gave it to Harry because his 
need was greater. They also keep asking (OOP) to join the Order even 
though there's nothing in it for them.  

They didn't go after Dudley because he is a muggle, they went after 
him because he's a prat and a bully himself, he just happened to be 
a muggle.  That's the difference from the death eaters who levitated 
those people at the World Cup BECAUSE they were muggles.  Also they 
have gone after magical prats like Umbrige.  The toffee was comic 
relief and Dudley deserved it.