OT--dialects ("fixin' to")

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 9144

Kimberly wrote:

>So!  How to bring this back on-topic at least a little....
>I know! Harry has a Privet Drive vocabulary and a Hogwarts vocabulary
>(since he can't talk about magic at home)!  That's the same sort of
>thing, isn't it?
 
Yup--it's called "code-switching," and Harry's fluent.  In Privet 
Drive speak, "Muggle" is translated to "normal person."  "That great 
bullying git" is translated to "Dinky Duddydums."  And "I'm going to 
go bats**t insane if I don't get out of this house NOW" is translated 
to "I have to go write a letter to my godfather."

Amy Z.

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"And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could *never
stop reading*!  You just had to wander around with your nose 
in it, trying to do everything one-handed."
                    --Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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(more evidence that Ron is a Seer--would that witch in Bath have the 
initials JKR by any chance?)