Peevs woz ere!

[maneelyfh]

No: HPFGUIDX 103347

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Debra" <hpsupergeek at y...> 
wrote:
> >> Adi:
> >>   Well, I looked at the door 
> >> too and there were some things 
> >> that caught my eye. There is 
> >> this writing in the mirror, 
> >> saying 'peeves woz ere!' and 
> >> there is a half-crescent moon 
> >> visible through the window.
snip> 
> > gregory_lynn:
> > Presumably it's just "here" 
> > in dialect, but if it isn't "ere" 
> > means before.
> > 
> > Which proves conclusively that 
> > Dumbledore is Peeves.
> 
> Debra:
> Whoa. What? Not gonne even try to wrap my mind around that one. 
Just 
> wanted to say that in conjunction with the spelling of 'was' 
> as 'woz', and the establishment of the character of Peeves as 
simply 
> a jokester, 
snip

If I am not mistaken, Peeves has a cockney accent, so Peeves woz ere 
is how someone with a cockney accent would say "was here"  As far as 
it meaning anything special, I doubt it as he shows up at all the 
rooms you can access at JKR's site.  You have to wait a bit but he 
come cackling through, stealing ribbons, knocking things over and 
extinguishing candles. 
Fran