[HPforGrownups] Translation

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 189508

  On 8/10/2010 8:16 PM, jlmss090505 wrote:
> Monday. This reminded Harry of something. If it was Monday - and you
> could usually count on Dudley to know the days of the week, because of
> television - then tomorrow, Tuesday, was Harry's eleventh birthday. Of
> course, his birthdays were never exactly fun - last year, the Dursleys
> had given him a coat hanger and a pair of Uncle Vernon's old socks.
> Still, you weren't eleven every day.
>
> What does the last sentence mean?
>

Bart:

     It is a form of what is called "understatement", a mildly humorous 
way of saying something large as if it were much smaller. Birthdays are 
rare, and the 11th birthday comes only once in a lifetime.

     Bart