Hunting is now illegal in the parks but it's still a big problem for even the smallest in the group like this infant whose hand was caught in a poacher's snare.
If we want to help our young people outgrow this self-defeating snare of impossible perfection, then we will raise them in a society that has outgrown that very same delusion.
She had killed a man, she who took care never to be in at the kill on a hunt, she who could not bear the squealing of a hog at slaughter or the squeak of a rabbit in a snare.
And they both heard the vicious, descending swing of the invisible club, cutting the air somewhere very close, then fading away to silence as he ran to his mother and hugged her, trembling like a rabbit in a snare.
The fact that guetapens (" a trick, snare" ) comes from French, on the other hand, seems less helpful, as it doesn't – to me, at any rate – look much like other French words.
" What's happened to you? " asked Harry, for Hermione looked distinctly disheveled, rather as though she had just fought her way out of a thicket of Devil's Snare.