help with JKR quote/

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 176497

Alla said:
>>BUT just read what JKR wrote about jinxes - those effects are irritating
but amusing.
Sooooo, minor Dark magic **can** be amusing?<<

CathyD now:
Just one that sounds *really* amusing to me, from the HP-Lexicon:

"finger-removing jinx:
Removes the target person's fingers. Goodwin Kneen's wife, Gunhilda, hit him
with this jinx after he came home a bit late from celebrating Ilkley's win
in Quidditch (QA3). "

I imagine Goodwin Kneen found it quite irritating....to say the least.

And as to the Hurling Hex, which I think has already been mentioned by
someone, being 'of a minor sort' of Dark Magic; being hurled off a
broomstick at even 50 feet (the height of the Quidditch goalposts) would
most likely be somewhat more than irritating and not at all amusing to the
person being hurled.

As Adam said:
>>Sometimes moral greyness is wonderful, and the world becomes more complex.
But with this issue, like so many others, I think JKR set something up to be
a certain way, changed it without explanation, and has left many of us
either disappointed or just scratching our heads.<<

CathyD again:
Personally, I'm not entirely sure she set it up to be a certain way, then
changed it.  I'm beginning to think it wasn't well thought out, beforehand,
at all.  Quite like the wand-allegience tripe we find in book 7.