3 unrelated OOP questions

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 96571

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "leb2323" <lbiles at f...> wrote:
> 2.  In ch 17 when Harry takes the injured Hedwig to the staffroom to
> find Professor Grubbly-Plank one of the gargoyles calls him 
> "sunny Jim".  Is this just some type of british phrase that I'm
> unaware of or is it an allusion to his father James and the fact 
that
> they look so much alike?
> 

Geoff:
this is more correctly "Sonny Jim" (and is so quoted in OOTP). It is 
a term more often used to a young person. I would sometimes use it in 
an exchange in school if I met a pupil in the corridor perhaps out of 
class or somewhere unusual, a pupil whose name I didn't know...

"What are you up to then, Sonny Jim?"

It's perhaps a bit old hat nowadays.