muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[steven1965aaa]

No: HPFGUIDX 155665

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rebecca" <dontask2much at ...> 
wrote:

> Like Alla before me, I do believe that twins were telling the 
truth and not  trying to get off on a technicality - I only have 
canon to go by here, and we all interpret it differently, or so it 
would appear. If they only targeted Muggles with their pranks, I 
would believe it be malicious and wouldn't believe it when Fred 
responded "indignantly" that they weren't baiting Dudley because he 
was a Muggle.  

Steven1965aaa:

Lets' look at the evidence:  How many examples do we have in the 
books of the Twins pranking Muggles who are NOT gits?  None, I 
think, but please correct me if I'm wrong (I view the card tricks on 
the girl in the store as a pick-up line, not a prank intending to 
make fun of her).  How many examples do we have of the Twins 
pranking wizards who are gits? Well, Umbridge, Montegue, Filch (ok a 
squib but but a squib who has punishment power over them), punching 
Malfoy.  There are probably more, I just can't remember offhand. I 
think the pattern is going after gits.  The fact that one of those 
gits they go after happens to be a muggle does not make them muggle 
haters, IMO, unless you show me some canon to the contrary.