[HPforGrownups] Re: Lavender Brown: werewolf?

[Meliss9900 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 174527

 
In a message dated 8/5/2007 1:33:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
bdhale59 at frontiernet.net writes:

In  Chapter 32, on page 646, ..."sinks his teeth into one of the 
fallen"...[with a  blast from Hermione's wand]..."Fenrir Greyback was thrown backwards 
from the  feebly stirring body of Lavender Brown."

Inquiring minds want to  know...

Brett



Melissa:
 
Well actually it says 
 
"Two bodies fell from the balcony overhead as they reached the ground, and  a 
gray blur that Harry took for an animal sped four-legged across the hall *to  
sink* its teeth into one of the fallen.
 
"No!" shrieked Hermione, and with a deafening blast from her wand, Fenrir  
Greyback was thrown backward from the feebly stirring body of Lavender  Brown."
 
"To sink its teeth" as written in JKR's original text is a passive  verb. The 
action has not yet taken place.  When you paraphrased  the text you changed 
the passive verb "to sink" into an active verb  "sinks"  and, in doing so, the 
meaning of the text changes.
 
So if we read JKR's text the "biting" was stopped before it took place by a  
well aimed blast from Hermione's wand.  
 
Melissa  



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