COS: New Incantations

[Susan Miller]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "GulPlum" <plumeski at y...> wrote:
> Susan Miller wrote in reply to my earlier rant:
>  
> > > 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". 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Huh? How can the term in "You were seen by no less than seven 
> Muggles" refer to *anything* other than the number of Muggles?

"You were seen, no less, by 7 muggles!"