[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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