[HPforGrownups] Ginny's crush - Newfie (was Sirius trouble)

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

> Yeah.  In Ginny's case, she had a whole year to work herself up about
> Famous Harry Potter and the tidbits,

Famous Harry Potter and the Tidbits... sounds like a 60's rock band.  I'm
imagining Ginny in the front row screaming and pulling at her pigtails when
Harry walks onstage...  :)

>> Well, yeah.  Heaven knows Sirius might start singing "I's the Bye"
 at any moment. <<

> ?? I don't get it.  Is this some kind of Newfoundland, the place,
> reference that non-Canadians can only scratch their heads at?

Guess so.  In Canadian parlance, a "Newfie" is a native of Newfoundland.
"I's the Bye" is a classic East Coast folk tune, sung in a very thick
/accent:  "I's the bye that builds the boat / and I's the bye that sails her
/ I's the bye that catches the fish / and takes 'em home to Lizer..."

Sirius may be a Newfoundland dog, but I am quite sure he is not a Newfie.
:)

> "O my America! my new-found-land . . . " (Donne, "To His Dead Sexy
> Animagus Going to Bed")

ROTFL!
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Rebecca J. Bohner
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