muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

festuco vuurdame at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 19 21:11:52 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 155652

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jennifer Choi"
<jenniferkchoi at ...> wrote:

> which makes me curious as to what level of harm would constitute Muggle
> baiting. 

Hm, I don't think it has anything to do with the level of harm. I
would expect Muggle-baiting is using magic maliciously on Muggles
because they are Muggles. From the examples we get from canon
(shrinking keys, Willy Widdershin's toilets) quote often not even
specific Muggles but any Muggle will do. 

That is not what the twins did. Now I agree that it was wrong and that
it caused a lot of panic. But it was not muggle-baiting. Because they
did not do it to him because he was a Muggle. They would have done
exactly the same if he were a wizard. 

So yes, it is wrong, just as wrong as beating him up would be. But no
it is not muggle-baiting.

Gerry







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