Quirrel's Name

Arya dequardo at waisman.wisc.edu
Wed Dec 31 13:32:26 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 87851


"justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
 <SNIP> Odd, since Dumbledore addresses all of his employees and 
 former students by their given names. Maybe he never speaks directly to
 Quirrel in Harry's hearing?
 
Arya wrote: Ok, I'm totally confused at this--what are you talking about?  
What hearing?

Geoff wrote:
Sorry, I hope I'm not being rude but is this a problem with English 
to a person who is not a native English speaker?
For soemthing to happen "in somebody's hearing" means that the person is 
actually there to hear what is said. As opposed to being told by 
somebody else which is hearing via "a third person".

Arya Again:
Quigonginger cleared it up for me.  It was just a brain fart and yes I speak 
English as my language.  I took "Harry's hearing" to mean "Harry's Court 
Hearing" or such, like the Hearing that occurs in Courtroom Ten in OotP.  I 
was mystfyied as to why Quirrel would be spoken to in this Hearing or in 
some other Hearing that Harry had.  Never mind...obviously, I have had too 
much egg nog (which is kind of like Butterbeer in my mind...)





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