The Houses Mystery/ Speculation on Potters' Job

[edisbevan]

No: HPFGUIDX 44580

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "alhewison" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> 
>  The way I see it, Hagrid does exaggerate a good bit. ....
> I don't know whether this is a British colloquialism, but I read 
> Hagrid's statement a little differently. I thought Hagrid was
> saying that Ollivanders is the only place that any self respecting 
> wizard  would go to, the "in" place, the "fashionable" place.

I agree with this, its exactly the tone of British Social Class 
codewords. Hagrid here I think was arguing 'only the best for Harry'. 
So they get the wand from the equivalent of that store on 5th Avenue, 
New York, getting the right Logo to boot, and not from the local Wal-
Mart. 

Edis