Her performance as a cool and icy blonde recalled the way that Hitchcock often presented and treated his ethereal leading ladies, who included Madeleine Carroll, Grace Kelly, Vera Miles, and Tippi Hedren."What a splendid way to wake up each morning," she old her husband at 5 AM.On that Sunday morning while the Hoggetts went off to church, Ferdinand had become frantic after seeing that Farmer Hoggett""s wife Esme had a new, wind-up alarm clock ("mechanical rooster") positioned at her bedside.His father responds: "You""re an unprincipled man, Hud."In one of the film""s memorable scenes, Homer condemns his drunken son Hud, and criticizes his entire philosophy of life:You don""t give a damn.He also blames "the dusters" - he extreme, unending 1930s dust storms, fearful weather conditions, and the ravages of a merciless drought, for making tenant farmers penniless:Tom: What happened? How come they got to get off? We lived here fifty years, same place." She was of the belief that Lord Voldemort did not exist and had not returned: "This is a lie." When Harry claimed he had seen Voldemort and fought against him (and that Voldemort was responsible for Cedric Diggory""s death), he was punished for outspokenness about Voldemort""s return and given a detention.