Hermione [staring at Draco]: You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!
[She punches him]
Ron [exclaiming]: Hermione! What was that?
Hermione: My parents said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.
Ron: So?
Hermione: Well [points at Draco] I’m not repressed any more.
There was a show years ago called “Not The Nine O’Clock News” that was broadcast on the BBC. It was a comedy show that was REALLY heavy on satire, both about the government of the day, and British society in general.
One of the sketches was a news report about a disaster (I think it was a plane crash?) and it started “A plane has crashed in the Mediterranean Ocean, and here is a list of the casualties in order of important – three Britons, two Americans, three French, seven Spanish, four Australians…” and well you get the idea.
Does it really surprise you that forty years later not much has changed?
Well – I am still there and here, so…