Identifying with Muggles in Potterverse

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 158193

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Magpie" <belviso at ...> wrote:
>
>  zanooda:
> > And what about Harry asking the Fat Lady "Quid agis?" OK, it may
be >> a well-known expression, but still, do you see many teenage boys 
>> going
> > around using Latin unless they were exposed to it somehow?
> 
> Magpie:
> I think I assumed "Quid agis" was the password and the joke was that
she 
> could also tell him to go inside to find out...?
> 
> -m
>
zanooda:

Yeah, I understand that it was a little word game, sorry if I didn't
make it clear. It's just that Harry says it "tentatively", which shows
to me that he knows what this expression means. Maybe I'm wrong, of
course.