Humor in HP

[Jerri&Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 186524

If I had to pick one line/exchange in the HP books that I thought was the 
funniest, to me personally, it would probably be Arthur Weasley saying 
"You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George."  This is somewhere 
in HBP, I think, when Harry is telling him about how HRH had followed Draco, 
and Arthur said something like "am I going to find out where you three were 
when you couldn't be found at the WWW shop" and Harry is surprised.

I love that line because it does several things.  One of them is to remind 
both Harry and the reader that in spite of the fact that Mr. Weasley has 
often been played for laughs and his ignorance about Muggles especially 
makes him at times seem foolish to Harry, who grew up in the Muggle world, 
Arthur Weasley is still an adult wizard, and father and much more 
intelligent than Harry and the reader tend to give him credit for being.

This reminds me that throughout the books we almost always see things from 
Harry's viewpoint, and that there is often a lot going on that we don't 
think about.  Arthur Weasley's intelligence and experience as father of 7 
very intelligent, often trouble making wizard/witch kids is one of the 
things we don't think about enough at times.

While I didn't want Lupin and Tonks to die, I am very glad that Arthur 
Weasley was given a reprieve, if we can believe JKR's interviews.

Jerri