[HPforGrownups] What if she got run over by a truck?

[Edblanning at aol.com]

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Mike:
> [Of course, this scenario isn't just undesirable (after all, Jo
> Rowling is one terrific homo sapiens), it's literally impossible,
> since where she lives they don't have trucks. (They do have
> things called "lorries," but I've only a vague concept about what
> those people do with the word "truck"; and you obviously can't be
> run over by a concept, let alone a vague one.) That
> notwithstanding, let's just suppose the impossible (and
> personally undesirable) should happen.]
> 

Actually, we do have trucks in the UK, even the kind you *can* get run over 
by, aside from the usage to have truck (dealings) with, or more usually no 
truck  with someone or something. To be fair, I think *perhaps* we tend to 
use it more in relation to what I think you would term railroad wagons (as in 
what over here are known as the 'Troublesome Trucks' in the Thomas the Tank 
Engine series; just thought you'd like a bit of higher culture, there) than 
we do for motor vehicles, but we do use the term. Probably for something a 
bit smaller than a lorry, or for a pick-up. 

Your outrageous idea has a lot of merit! What will we do when we know all the 
answers? And much as I wish she would eventually publish her backstories etc, 
in a way that might be even worse!

>Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray, who didn't get to preach this
>morning and couldn't spend a whole week without saying
>*something* outrageous.)

Eloise (who can't let up an opportunity to discuss the different ways we use 
this language of ours.)


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