Trip to Egypt? / What other curse scar?

[lorien_eve]

No: HPFGUIDX 59949

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maria <maryblue67 at y...> wrote:

> danielle:
>   Correction, the line is :You'll forgive me,
>   Dumbledore, but I've never heard of a curse scar
>   acting as an alrm bell before....."
>   you've forgot one word, there are more than one curse
>   scars I'm sure, but in this reference Fudge is
>   referring to in general.
> 
> 
>   me :
> 
>   No, sorry, my copy hasn't got "never" in it. It really says :
> "You'll forgive
>   me, Dumbledore, but I've heard of a curse scar
>   acting as an alarm bell before..."
> 
> Now Me, Maria:
> 
> I think it is correct without the "never". I understand it as a
> sarcasm on Fudge's side. He is exagerating the affirmation comparing
> it with an alarm, something ridiculous that reinforces the sarcasm
> tone that i always read in that sentence.
> 
> Maria
> 
> =====
> Maryblue
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling
> in love" - Eistein
> 

Just to put my two cents in, my book has "never" in there. It's a US 
printing, but I don't know which edition. It's a later copy, I know, 
so maybe it was a typo and was corrected by the time this edition was 
published.

Lorien_Eve
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