muggle baiting vs. muggle torture

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 155731

Felix:
> > If the twins had, in scaring Dudley, used a method that 
utilized   
> > the very fact that they were wizards (full costume, wands out     
> > making a show of it becuase they knew Dudley was afraid of        
> > wizards, as the white kid would have known he black one was 
afraid 
> > of the racist movement of the time) then it would have 
been        
> > comparable.

Ceridwen:
Grabbing your quote second-hand, since I can't find the original 
right off.

There is rarely mention made of clothes in the HP books, except when 
wizards try to dress like Muggles and come out looking like an 
explosion in Grandma's attic instead.  Now, perhaps the twins know 
how to dress like Muggles - one of them at least must be able to 
pass, since he's been impressing a Muggle girl in town with his magic 
tricks - but one of the arguments about the hooked-nose man in 
Snape's memory is that he might be a wizard because Harry doesn't 
notice Muggle clothes.  How do wizards and their children dress while 
at home or visiting friends?  Do they wear Muggle clothes like jeans 
and tee-shirts as fanfics suggest?  Or do they wear their everyday 
robes?

Still, this question has given me some interesting mental pictures.  
If the twins, not knowing at the time how to properly dress like 
Muggles, decided to do so anyway, could poor Dudley have been tongue-
tied by two identical wizards dressed in linebacker jerseys complete 
with shoulder pads, plaid school skirts, and hiking boots?

Ceridwen.