Readers in the WW (was: JKR and "Think of the Children!")

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 162098

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

Carol:
> A sidenote on "Helas, je me suis Transfigure mes Pieds", a play by the
> French wizard Malecrit mentioned by zgirnius upthread. Clearly, we
> have another linguistic joke here--a playwright named Malecrit (bad
> critic?) who is presumably a bad judge of good writing. And the title,
> which I think translates to "Alas, I've transfigured my feet" (please
> correct me if I'm wrong; I took Latin, not French, as my foreign
> language), can only be a farce. (The Lexicon translates "Malecrit" as
> "badly written," but I'm basing "crit" on "critic" and similar words.
> I could be wrong, but it's a Libatius-Borage-style joke either way.)

Geoff;
I think you've picked up the wrong link. This looks like another of JKR's 
plays on words. It breaks exactly as "mal écrit" which, as the Lexicon 
apparently observes is "badly written" or another perhaps more 
accurate translation "bad writing".

I must confess to being better at Latin than French although I took both 
to GCE O Level. The former has always interested  me despite finishing 
up as a Maths and Computing teacher....