[HPforGrownups] Knight Bus? -not free. and "wand" or "wand hand"?

[James P. Robinson III]

No: HPFGUIDX 45784

As the clock struck 06:46 PM 10/25/2002 +0000, jastrangfeld took pen in 
hand and wrote:
>PoA p 35:
>
>Stan speaks:
>
>"'Ere,' he said, looking suspicious again, 'you DID flag us down,
>dincha?  Stuck out your wand 'and, dincha?'
>
>"'Yes,' said Harry quickly.  'Listen, how much would it be to get to
>London?'
>
>"'Eleven Sickles,' said Stan, 'but for firteen you get 'ot chocolate,
>and for fifteen you get an 'ot water bottle an' a toofbrush in the
>color of your choice.'"
>
>
>Now, I can see that Harry has raised his arm and illuminated his
>wand, trips, loses his wand, and maybe just maybe his hand is still
>stuck up in the air, and maybe that is why the bus is summoned.  But
>if so, even with the accent Stan has, he still states "Stuck out your
>wand 'and, dincha?"
>
>And it's definately not free.

You are quite right.  This seems quite cheap to me, but I got unacceptably 
carried away to say it was free.

>
>If I have the only version of PoA in which Harry pays money, and Stan
>says "Wand" and not "Wand hand" in that sentence, please let me know,
>because I'm betting it'd be worth something!

Ok, you have lost me here.  The text does say wand hand not just 
wand.  Stan drops his 'aitches.  That is why there is an inverted comma in 
'and.  "wand 'and" is "wand hand" in Stan's dialect.  'At's right, innit?

                                         Jim