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

k12listmomma k12listmomma at comcast.net
Fri Mar 14 05:29:11 UTC 2008


No: HPFGUIDX 182059

> 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


Is that it, or it is a "British" thing? Kind of like "bloody"? Seems to me 
that it's more "Brit" than a replacement for a vulgar word with the same 
starting letter.

Someone British- can you shed light on these words?

Shelley






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