COS: New Incantations

[Susan Miller]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:

> Incidentally, and changing the subject to another language: re. 
> Snape's opening scene reading the riot act to H&R: "no FEWER than 
> seven Muggles", not "no LESS than seven Muggles". Misuse of that 
word 
> is one of my *major* bugbears about incorrect English, and whilst 
I'd 
> not expect that mistake from the punctilious Snape, Alan Rickman 
> *really* should know better. That Kloves made the mistake doens';t 
> surprise me in the slightest...

That often annoys me, too, but in this case, I heard it differently, 
as in "no less" referred to the state of the disaster rather than the 
count of muggles. Maybe it was just my grammarian ears making the 
correction.

Constance Vigilance