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

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 45796

-----Original Message----
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:46:10 -0000
> From: "jastrangfeld" <msbonsai at mninter.net>

>Where is everyone getting this idea that the Knight Bus is
either
>cheap or free?  I encourage you to go back an reread that there!
>
>> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., jodel at a... wrote:
>> >The bus is hailed by sticking out one's wand HAND, not one's
>> wand.
>>
>Me:
SNIP
>
>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?"

Er, Stan DOES say "wand hand" albeit in that dialect that has
people making assumptions on the class issue.  The words "wand
'and" is NOT "wand AND" but a dialectical way of showing Stan's
dropped aitches... Stan DID say Harry stuck out his wand hand NOT
his wand.

>And it's definately not free.

True... and I can't really see that it's all that cheap, really.
How many sickles make a Galleon? Eleven sickles is still a couple
of pounds sterling, if I'm calculating correctly.  (Er, I think
I'll leave my discussion about the inconsistency of Wizarding
World prices for another time.)
>
>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!

Yes, it would be. But, unfortunately, your copy is the same as
mine.

Bye the bye, I'm sure most of you have heard the sad news about
actor Richard Harris (I hope this digression into OT is
permissible).  I had the privilege of seeing him perform live in
CAMELOT back in 1983 at the National Theatre in Washington DC,
and when I first read HPPS the first time and before TCTTCNBN had
any publicity, I had envisioned Dumbledore as Mr. Harris.  We've
lost a real talent.

Bernadette/RowanRhys
(who is looking for a Canadian copy of POA for comparison
purposes for a college class and getting frustrated by the
search)
"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
- Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862