OoP: Wotcha/Death

[PhoenixAnna]

No: HPFGUIDX 62211

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" <sara1412au at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ali" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" 
<sara1412au at y...> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> >  (who'd REALLY appreciate being spared the ignomanity of having 
to 
> > ask a 10 year old kid, about the significance of Tonks 
continually 
> >  greeting Harry with "Wotcha").
> > 
> > Ali responds:
> > 
> > I'm not sure that there is any significance. "Wotcha" 
> > means "hi", "alright", "how's it going", it's just one of those 
> > phrases you say on meeting people. It is a vernacular term, 
common 
> I 
> > think to London. I used to use it alot, before I went to 
> University 
> > and lived with people from all over the country who found that 
bit 
> > of slang too entertaining for me to continue with it.
> > 
> > If there is any significance at all, I would say that it 
pinpoints 
> > Tonk's origins to London. Alternatively, it could just be her way 
> of 
> > being "cool".
> > 
> > Ali
> > 
> > (Who is still in deep mourning).
> 
> Much appreciated Ali - 
> 
> I read the whole book thinking that she was trying to say "Rodger" 
> (like in the army films), but with a lisp (like you "wascally 
> wabbit") which, oddly enough, didn't quite help me come to terms 
> with Tonks as a character. Was this kept for the America edition of 
> the books (anyone?) - I can imagine a few more clueless readers out 
> there.
> 
> Sara (who had, unfortunately worked out through watching "lord of 
> the rings" too often, that Sirius had a Boromir complex and was .. 
> doomed (snifs) )


Yes, this was kept for the American version, imagine how confused WE 
were when we read it!  But now that I know that it is a greeting, 
(which is what we figured it was anyways) I imagine it is something 
similar to our "whatcha" like     
"whatcha doin'?"  (...what are you...) I am glad we were not the only 
confused ones.  
I am also in deep mourning for Sirius.  I boo-hooed big time.  Well, 
after I went and found a second book.  You see, my first copy was
MISSING 50 PAGES!!!  50 pages out of the final 80, no less!  It 
stopped mid-sentence on the bottom of 786, when Malfoy was about to 
spill Voldemort's plan to Harry and the crew and Bellatrix was 
cackling, went back to 739 and repeated the pages until 786, then the 
next page was 835!!!  The big fight in the Department of Mysteries 
was missing, so was Sirius's death (which I could have done without 
anyways...), Voldemort and Dumbledore's big fight, and the first part 
of the chapter where Dumbledore explains it all! Needless to say, 
after reading since 12:15 Friday nite, and only getting like 10 hours 
of sleep all weekend up until then, when I got to that part, I 
actually screamed!  And whimpered and whined and called the bookstore 
and wanted blood and they actually said I could wait til more come in 
later this week, because all their stores in town (they have 6) were 
sold out.  YEAH, RIGHT! I have been waiting til I got back to work 
and my computer today so I could tell people who would truly 
appreciate my plight, and not giggle maniacally like my husband.