[HPforGrownups] Lupin/Ron in the Shrieking Shack

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 105919

In a message dated 7/12/04 4:09:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tinainfay at msn.com writes:
>Hi everyone!  My first post here.  As I was listening to PoA today I 
noticed something that struck me as odd and it brought up a 
question.  In the Shrieking Shack, Lupin addresses the group and 
then Ron (p 362, Am HB) saying:  "Then it's time we offered you some 
proof," said Lupin.  "You boy - give me Peter, please.  Now."
Everytime I've listened to this book, I've wondered about the 'you 
boy;' that seems an odd way for Lupin to address Ron.  On page 350, 
he twice calls him Ron (in a friendly sort of way) and surely they 
have a relationship since Ron has been in his class all year.  I'm 
wondering if this is some sort of cryptic message.  It just seems so 
odd.  Since Peter is in the sentence I wondered if there was message 
about what might happen between Peter and Lupin (like everyone else, 
that silver hand worries me).  Thoughts?  Or is this Quibbler-
worthy?  ~tina<

You have the US Scholastic version of POA, in the UK Bloomsbury version it is 
Sirius who says the line. It is one of those editing for the American edition 
that happened and was never corrected by Scholastic.

Batchevra


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