[HPforGrownups] A Little Something about The Wedding

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 173938

On 7/30/07, Sherry Gomes <sherriola at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kiely78
> Anyway I just found this odd excerpt in DH American edition page 173
> chapter
> 8, The Wedding: "A host of white-robed waiters had arrived an hour
> earlier,
> along with a gold-jacketed band, and all of these wizards were currently
> sitting a short distance away under a tree; Harry could see a blue haze of
> pipe smoke issuing form the spot."
>
> So umm what were they smoking in that pipe. Am I reading too much into
> this
> book now?
>
>
> Sherry:
>
> I just thought, if I thought about it at all, that they were smoking
> regular
> old pipes, like pipe tobacco and all.  I actually never gave it a thought,
> and I think you put any spin on it you wanted for your own particular
> image.


montims:
wizards have traditionally been described as smoking pipes (see Gandalf),
and a number of wizards and witches in HP smoke pipes.  I think you are
reading too much it, and it is a particularly American reading to imagine
that there is just the one pipe.


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