The other day I encountered somebody who said (to another person)

"Having siblings can be fine if they're more like Fred and George and not like Percy."

I was dying to ask them to justify this statement, but one of my other rules of discourse is that I do not discuss Harry Potter with total strangers, only with people I know. So I didn't. There was no way that would end well.

But seriously, who the heck holds that opinion!? Okay, I'm sure JKR does, but I thought we all agreed that this woman holds a large number of dangerously wrong opinions. All the more reason to take the other approach, if you ask me.

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