[HPforGrownups] Translation

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 189509

Quoting jlmss090505 <jlmss090505 at yahoo.com>:

>
> Hi, everyone!
>
> I'm a newcomer and not native.
>
> I have a question about a sentence in HP and Sorcerer's Stone (p43).
>
> 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?
>
> Can anyone help me? Thanks.


I'd say that it means that, even without presents or a party, his  
birthday's special to him---that it means something to him to be  
eleven, instead of merely ten.

Poor kid...

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