What does Christmas represent to the WW?

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at aol.com
Tue Apr 6 06:51:01 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 95291

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> Carol:
> He didn't know where to place the comma, though--or JKR and her 
editor
> didn't. It's "God rest ye merry, gentlemen (or hippogriffs)," 
not "God
> rest ye, merry gentlemen (or hippogriffs)."
> 
> Carol, betting that Sirius didn't know what "God rest ye merry" 
means

Geoff:
True. If he were to sing it in modern English, it would be "God keep 
you happy, hippogriffs"

:-)

Just in passing, I feel that, in message 95267, my quote was badly 
snipped in that it seems to imply that I was agreeing with Kneasy. if 
you read my full comment in message 95226, I most certainly wasn't.





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