muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 155403

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
a_svirn:
What's wrong with dictionary definitions? They can come in handy 
when you try to make sense of tricky terms. As for muggle baiting's 
being *art* I'd say it's too noble a word for such disgusting tricks 
as "regurgitating toilets". And the twins' *humour* more often than 
not is of the same toilet variety.