"Filthy"-- Re: GoF chapter 24-26 Post DH look

Fri Mar 14 04:17:03 UTC 2008

No: HPFGUIDX 182058

To answer the question as why 'filthy' seams to be used as an 
opprobrious epithet, I think that JKR means us to substitute 
another word beginning with the same consonant, one which one 
really can't use in a children's book. I don't think I need to 
be more explicit.

Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. 
Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only 
the bicycle remains pure in heart."--Iris Murdoch