[HPforGrownups] Re: witches of the world (was: Lavender vs Hermione)

[Magpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 160437

Bruce:
> Nobody forced them to eat the cupcakes.  Even in the WW, a pair of 
> cupcakes
> appearing hovering in midair for no apparent reason should ring alarm 
> bells.
> There's an old saying: "Sheep were made to be shorn."

Magpie:
No, nobody forced them--nobody forced the Trio to drug food either.  But 
being stupid isn't a crime--drugging food can be.  I mean, it's only natural 
that someone less naturally suspicious or more greedy is going to fall for 
cons more often than another person.  That's why Neville falls for the 
Twins' pranks more than Harry or Hermione do.  If instead of letting the 
cupcakes hover in the air they'd laid them out on a plate would that make 
them actually responsible? Suggesting they in any way deserve what was done 
to them because they're dumb or gluttonous seems to sort of encourage seeing 
certain people as lower beings the higher folks can do anything to because 
they're better. Like Jimmy Stewart's character's ideas put into action by 
his ex-students in Rope.

Ginny Weasley's even more complicit in her possession, but I still consider 
Voldemort the one behind the Basilisk attacks.

-m (who must admit after conversations about this and the Twins' Toffee, 
would think twice about eating or drinking anything at an HP4GU get 
together!;-)