[HPFGU-Movie] Re: COS: New Incantations

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Gul Plum 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...

The one which really got me is '*the* both of you'...said by both Snape and
McGonagall in the course of the film. Teeth-grindlingly awful.

Regards,
Nicholas