Question about Merlin's pants.

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Nightbreed" <md at ...> wrote:

Geoff: 
> I wonder whether JKR just threw this in without contemplating the ending.
 
> One of life's unanswered mysteries perhaps.

md:
> I've heard the expression, she didn't just make it up, nor did I it's
> conclusion.

Geoff:
It's possibly of those UK/US differences that crop up from time to time.