[HPforGrownups] Re: just how different? UK = Canada

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 180744

>> Carol:
>> Inquisitive readers, kids especially, would find such a glossary
>> interesting, especially if it's done with a touch of mischievous
>> JKR-style humor.
>
> Mike, who couldn't stop giggling the first time he read Ron offering
> Hermione some "spotted dick" ;)

Shelley:
And even if you knew that a spotted dick was a type of food, sometimes I 
found it hard (initially) to discern whether something was a British thing, 
or a Wizarding thing, such as the healer's comment about Ron's spattergroit, 
which was later used to hide Ron when the trio was camping. Turns out it was 
a Wizarding disease, but at first I thought it was an old expression like 
gout or other illness that exists in real life.