Can Real Wizards Apologize? WAS Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Flowerbed and Dumbledore

Thu Jan 16 22:27:02 UTC 2003

No: HPFGUIDX 49906

> Eileen: 
> > Everyone, pay close attention. "Should have." 
> 
> > As we all know, Real Wizards Don't Apologize.

> 
Phillipa:
> Why don't wizard's apologize?  Where does it say in Cannon that they 
> don't ?  I never realized this before.

It's more HPfGU canon than JKR canon.  Nowhere in the novels is the
statement made that "real wizards don't apologize."  But in message
36556, you'll see how the phrase came into existence.

--Dicentra