Stupid Question about the Vanishing Cabinet

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141714

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at i...> 
wrote:
>
> CV, confused:
> 
> > Also, is Filch's office in the basement? Otherwise, how could a
> Vanishing Cabinet on the First Floor be dropped over Filch's 
office?:-s
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> I think it is only in American usage that the floor of a building on
> the ground level is called the first floor.  In most countries, and
> I'm pretty sure in the UK, what Americans would call the second 
floor
> is called the first floor.

Geoff:
You are quite right. The floor level with the ground outside is the 
ground floor so you have to go up the stairs (or lift if you're lazy) 
to reach the first floor. IIRC, the same type of labelling certainly 
applies in Germany.

I never knew that a different system operated in the US. They're a 
funny lot across the pond. They even drive on the wrong side of the 
road to us....
:-))