[HPforGrownups] Re: Malfoy on the second floor

[Kurt Douglass]

No: HPFGUIDX 70611




>From: "mtwelovett" <mbush at lainc.com>
>Reply-To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Malfoy on the second floor
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:30:04 -0000
>
>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "michaelkgidlow"
><Veritas771 at h...> wrote:
><SNIP>
>
>  Hermione says early in CoS that Moaning Myrtle's bathroom is on
> > the first floor, but it's really on the second. This may just have
> > been a misprint.
>
>In some if not all of Europe, what we Americans call the First Floor
>is the Ground Floor, and the first floor up a flight of stairs, is
>called the First Floor where as in America we call it the Second
>Floor. So there could be some confusion there if that was considered
>in the "translation" into "American English" and it may have been a
>detail that was overlooked someplace so it may be inconsistant. How do
>the references compare to the British Editions?
>
>Mtwelovett

>From Michael:

I knew about the diffences in numbering floors in Europe and America, but 
the text specifically says the second floor. Also, Harry goes up a flight of 
stairs from the entrence hall (the ground floor) to the first floor, then up 
another flight to the second floor.
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