Typos

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No: HPFGUIDX 24214

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., A.E.B.Bevan at o... wrote:
> 
> What we have here is a colloqial expression - it seems in 'British 
> English' as our US friends appear to be thrown by it. Its not a 
> misprint.
> 
> 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".
> 
> The idiomatic expression is exactly right as used by Harry about 
> Madame Maxine. He intends to say, and does so clearly and in 
standard 
> and grammatically correct colloquial english, that If Madame M was 
> ppresent at a particlar occasion she would stand out a mile.
> 
> Edis


Ah! So what you're saying is that even if Harry is saying the exact 
opposite of what it actually true, it's still right? Interesting! I 
guess my understanding of colloquial English still isn't what I 
thought it was. 

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