Neville's broken nose

erinellii erinellii at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 3 15:30:46 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 79654

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "watsola79" <watsola79 at y...> 
wrote:
> In the battle scene in OOP, after Neville's nose gets broken and he 
> is taunted by Bellatrix about his parents, he screams "I DOE YOU 
HAB"  at her.   
> 
> I have always interpreted this as "I DO YOU HARM", but I recently 
got to thinking about it, and it seems a grammatically and 
syntactically *odd* thing to say.  
> 
> Are there any other thoughts or interpretations as to what Neville 
> meant to say?  


  Yes, silly.  Bellatrix just finished saying she'd "met" Neville's 
parents, and Neville said "I know you have!" meaning he knew EXACTLY 
what Bellatrix had done to his parents...

Erin





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