[HPforGrownups] Re: If Hogwarts were an American Boarding School..

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 40728

Talia Dawn wrote:

>Ouch.  You think that just because it's in America there would be all kinds
>of hanky panky?  We know about "stuff like that" going on in Hogwarts because
>Ginny walks in on Percy making out with his girlfriend.  We also saw Snape
>blast apart the bushes in GoF to get those two kids (sorry, don't have my
>books with me right now so I don't have their names) out of there.  I'm
>pretty sure they weren't going over their Transfiguration notes.  But if it
>were in America, I'm sure that the kids would use different slang.  Also, I
>think there would be alot more swearing.  I personally have quite the gutter
>mouth on me and was swearing up a storm in 6th grade. 

<smile>  Do you really think British children don't swear?  JKR could have
included all sorts of ugly words with perfect verisimilitude, if that were
the kind of book she had wanted to write.

Come to that, do you really think British schoolchildren don't indulge in,
um, hanky panky?

But I agree, the slang would be different in an American boarding school.

Pen