Yeah, I think first that the authorial approval or seeing people get away with everything all the time when you want them to get smackdown is one thing...and there's even also just the sort of bullying amuses you. Like, when Fred and George talk about giving people boils during OWLS it's just not particularly funny to me. It's just an inconvenience. You made people look awful and feel awful and whatever, but it doesn't strike me as funny.

Snape, I have to admit, occasionally gets much closer to my sense of humor--or at least he also makes me laugh because I identify with his situation of being surrounded by idiots. Draco's humor isn't the same, but sometimes he just makes me laugh too. It's funny, because in some ways his humor is just as stupid as the twins, but maybe it doesn't bother me as much because he seems young and stupid whereas the twins are presented as if they're cool. But really, you know, as repulsive as it is for a boy to be a bigot, is it really sexier to dream of opening a practical joke shop?

God, now I have this image of the twins as middle aged guys coming to visit a boy Snape and it being like that guys "Joey Nickles" in Annie Hall where he keeps laughing and pulling coins out of Alvy's ear and the kid's like, "What an asshole."