[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Help from UK viewers/readers? language

[bert.coules at fonix.org]

MS>But the books are not set in the 30's and 40's, they are set in the
  >90's.

But they're not *our* nineties, are they?  They're Rowling's, and she 
can (and does) make up whatever rules she likes for them.

MS>...Harry was born in 1980. Which means that it is highly plausable
  >that he would swear.

In real life, perhaps.  But this is fiction.  In real life, how many
thirteen-year-olds would instinctively use "Blimey!" (as Ron does,
repeatedly) as an expression of surprise?  

Bert
http://www.bertcoules.co.uk

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