[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: some Brit expressions found in HP

[Doreen]

 Hagrid is always saying, "All right, Harry?"

So's Colin Creevy.

Yes, I forgot about him .... I really need to get off this merry-go-round of
list letters and get back to my re-re-reads. (or my listies for Neil & Steve
before I get canned)

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> Filch - To filch is to steal or pilfer. The origin is apparently
unknown (wow.. right there, obvious as heck and I never gave it any
thought... I guess I enjoyed his character too much to attach any
meaning to his name)

What a *perfect* name for the character!! Jo rivals Dickens in
creating descriptive names for many of her characters.  I love it!

Just one more reason why her books are so entertaining. I am an avid fan of
plays on words, satire, etc.  Hence my great interest in the Tom Swifties.
They are the best ... and we have almost 100 now. I am starting a new list
file, influenced totally by John Walton... Tom Smutties. That way, people
can choose whether or not to view them. I hate censorship in any form.
> I do have to include this one, though.. (When I read it, I thought
of, "Be quiet so as not to knock up the cat." ... in USA they frown
on that)
>
> Doreen, who loves British expressions ... does that make me an
Anglophile?

It's a good start! <g>  Just throw some in a conversation, drool over
pictures/descriptions, subscribe to every British magazine you can
afford, and tell yourself I *will* get to Britain before I get too
old to enjoy it & you're an Anglophile

Parker (who is *damn sure* she was born in the wrong country)

How about the fact that I had Spotted Dick for dessert the other night?
Doreen