Confusion reigns re: Pettigrew and Lupin

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
. Ditto Mark Williams (also 
> a Brummie). :-) 

Brummie means "someone from the English Midlands"? Is it an 
abbreviation of something? I know Oxonians are from Oxford, and 
Mancunians are from Manchester, and Liverpudlians are from Liverpool, 
but I have no idea about Brummies.

Whilst, say, Gary Oldman, could do a perfectly plausible 
> Brummie (or any other typically uneducated or *seen* as uneducated) 
accent 
> - indeed he has done in the past! - any (Brit) viewer would 
immediately 
> know it's fake, because we know what he sounds like (rough London, 
> actually, although it's been trained up to sound "proper" and 
that's how he 
> usually speaks).

OMIGOD. I just had a flash of who I could see Gary Oldman as ... but 
this is wildly OT ... If anyone ever made a movie of Lori Summers' HP 
fan fic (POU, STNE, HWTF etc.), I could see Oldman as (ta da) 
Napoleon Jones (how about *that* for going OT??)

Anne U
(Must. Get. Back. To. Work.)