GetTheGalleons!? - An aside on Slang

wildfire_517 wildfire_517 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 5 00:45:29 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 79880

Dan: (err...JKR)
> Further, JKR says so:
> "Those goblins are sneaky people. They manage to put the Muggle 
money back 
> into circulation. They are like "fences" --British slang, do you 
understand 
> it?"

Me:
   Just an aside, but fences isn't just British slang.  We use it 
here in the U.S. as well, and I would assume it means the same thing.

  Wyld






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