[HPforGrownups] Re: Discussion Summary: GoF/Chapter 30 - "The Pensieve"

[Meredith Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 12146



** > (4) Bagman is described as "muscly".  This is not a word.  
** Could this be evidence that JKR did indeed write the 
** infamous wand order revision, using that non-word "untidy-haired"?

Just to jump in here with a short note... muscly is a word.  It is the
adjective form of muscle.  It's in the big ol' dictionary I keep right here
on my desk. :)

As for untidy-haired, I think that's as appropriate as any descriptive word
placed with 'haired' like black-haired or curly-haired.  Not that you
couldn't say something like 'the boy with constantly untidy hair' as easily
as 'the untidy-haired boy,' but the latter is more succinct.  Basically I'm
saying that it doesn't bother me, per se.

Mer