[HPforGrownups] Dem Bones

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 54747

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Katy Cartee wrote:

> Bone plural would be Bone's and Bones plural would be Bones'...so it
> could be either one.

Er, no.  You're thinking of the possessive.  There are no apostrophes in 
plural forms.

For example: one boy, two boys; one glass, two glasses.

That said, I think it is unlikely that JKR would introduce two unconnected
families, one named "Bone" and one named "Bones."  There would be no point
in doing that unless she were purposely trying to mislead us, and so far
we have seen and heard so little about Susan Bones and the dead Bones that 
it doesn't seem like she's trying to lead us anywhere (yet).  

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Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"