another play on words that slipped by me

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 24884

I was reading through a dictionary of British slang the other day and 
noticed that the term "fairy lights" means what we Yanks 
call "christmas lights." That means, if I understand correctly, the 
strings of colored lights we put on our houses and trees during the 
holiday season. So now, not only do I understand the password that 
the Fat Lady used to get into Gryffindor, but I also understand that 
play on words when Flitwick puts up lights in his room and they turn 
out to be real live fairies. REAL fairy lights!

Makes me wonder how much else I'm missing because I was born on the 
left side of the Atlantic. And how much gets lost in translation for 
other countries!

Now I have to go add this to the Strictly British page of the Lexicon!

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon