Typos

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 24323

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., katzefan at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Indigo" <indigo at i...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Dave Hardenbrook" <
> DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> > > On 14 Aug 2001, at 1:57, Bente13 at p... wrote:
> > > 
> 
> > > 
> > > Not as crucial, but in the same league is this error near the 
> top 
> > of 
> > > page 325: 
> > > 
> > > "[Madame Maxime] wasn't exactly hard to miss."
> > > 
> > > Umm... Shouldn't that be that she *was* hard to miss??
> > 
> > No!  Madame Maxine is [presumably] at least part Giant.  She's 
> NOT 
> > hard to miss!  She's quite big! 
> > 
> If she's NOT HARD to miss, then that means it's easy to miss 
> her . (Really love contemplating double negatives at 3 a.m. ....) 
> (Alert, alert, brain going into a tailspin ....)

Right.  "wasn't exactly"  means  it wasn't really hard to miss her.  
You couldn't miss her if you tried, even.

In this case, because of the sarcastic tone, the emphasis was that 
she was NOT hard to miss because she was huge.  

I think it was meant as a smirky comment.  But yes, it is confusing.

Indigo