That is a failing indeed! cried Elizabeth. Implacable resentment is a shade in a character. But you have chosen your fault well. I really cannot laugh at it; you are safe from me.
“Their hearts must be husks, ” he sneered inwardly, as he observed the antics of the young parents around him, “shrivelled by the demands of these mewling offspring! ”
“My dear man, please believe me, I have no pleasure at all in being inside your - er - d'you call this a house? ” said Lucius Malfoy, sneering as he looked around the small cabin.
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him; But little he'll reck, if they'll let him sleep on In a grave where a Briton has laid him.
The artist has this advantage over the rest of the world, that his friends offer not only their appearance and their character to his satire, but also their work.
It is not just the humour of absurdist madness and slapstick torment that hovers between pathos and ridicule, often called the " comedy of the grotesque" .
Over at the Slytherin table, Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle were laughing at him, tapping their heads with their fingers, pulling grotesquely mad faces, and waggling their tongues like snakes.