[HPforGrownups] Re: Typos

Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner bohners at pobox.com
Wed Aug 15 13:00:44 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 24207

> If someone particularly large/fat/loudmouthed/whatever was at a party
> and someone afterwards asked me if I had seen him there I might well
> say " Of course - he isnt exactly hard to miss".

But it should be "...he isn't exactly hard to SPOT", not miss.  If you say
someone isn't hard to MISS, you're saying that they're easily overlooked.

Saying that the enormous Madame Maxime "isn't exactly hard to miss" is
nonsensical.  I have to agree with those who've called it as an error.
--
Rebecca J. (Anderson) Bohner
Specializing in Snape, Moody and George at
http://www.sugarquill.com/authors/rjanderson.html
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