Neville's broken nose

msbeadsley msbeadsley at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 3 16:38:55 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 79692

"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.  <snip>

The scene, below:

"Longbottom?" repeated Bellatrix, and a truly evil smile lit her 
gaunt face.  "Why, I have had the pleasure of meeting your parents, 
boy..."

"I DOE (know) YOU HAB (have)!" roared Neville, and he fought so 
hard...

Although I can't duplicate this K to D and V to B distortion, I have 
heard really stuffed up people (like with a cold) sound this way.






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