[HPforGrownups] Neville's broken nose

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 79681

watsola79 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?

I read that as, "I know you have [tortured people/my parents]!"


--Margaret Dean
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