Universitality of Harry Potter

[hekatesheadband]

No: HPFGUIDX 143712

<Seamus, who speaks of "me man and da.">

Erm, that should have been "mam," not "man." Silly fingers!

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hekatesheadband"
<sophiapriskilla at y...> wrote:
>
> Miles:
> > There are some cultural details that distinct Harry Potter as an
> > English boy and his sorrounding as British/Irish (the Weasleys are
> > surely from Ireland;) ). 
> 
> I must correct you on this - the Weasleys are in no way Irish! (If
> they were, the twins would refer to Percy as "himself." So would most
> of the other characters, come to that.) Their speech is marked as
> English, with the children referring to "my mum and dad," as opposed
> to Seamus, who speaks of "me man and da." Another note: red hair is
> actually rare in Ireland and much commoner in Scotland, and even in
> England. The confusion comes from the influx of "Scots-Irish" or
> "Ulster Scots" immigrants to North America. They were about as Irish
> as they were Mongolian, and the name stuck. A lot of them were
> red-haired - more than the other European immigrant groups of the
> eighteenth century - hence the association.
> 
> -hekatesheadband 
> (The screen name is a piddling little classical allusion, not a pagan
> one, just for reference.;)
>