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Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at aol.com
Sat Nov 6 23:23:14 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 117364


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

Carol:
> As I don't have access to the Billy Bunter books, can you tell me
> whether the boys refer to each other by last names, that is, whether
> McGonagall is using British schoolboy patterns for her era? Do the
> books reflect similar patterns to those used at Hogwarts? 

Geoff:
I was never a Billy Bunter (The Fat Owl of the Remove) fan but I did 
glance at the books years ago and I'm pretty certain they use 
surnames.

Geoff
http://www.aspectsofexmoor.com








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