[HPforGrownups] Re: The Magical Room Hiden in Hogwarts
eloiseherisson at aol.com
eloiseherisson at aol.com
Mon Aug 19 21:18:23 UTC 2002
No: HPFGUIDX 42915
> ~Phyllis
> who is waiting for one of our British listies to tell me
> that "mentioned" means something different in the UK than in the US
Of course! Anything to oblige!
Well, the word "mentioned" is obviously derived from the Latin, "mens,
mentis" - "mind". Thus it means "thought of", not "said", so the room figures
only in the mind of a character and is not actually in the text of the book.
Eloise
(In a particularly wicked frame of mind.)
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