Teeth, Braces, and the English Language or Variations there of.

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190301



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

Steve:

>So, yes in proper perfect English, it is stated in the present tense, but that does not necessarily mean it was intended in the present tense. Which is why I asked about common UK English speech in everyday usage. We have people who live or have lived in the UK here in the group, and I wonder if, in common language, it was fair or even possible to assume future tense in Hermione's statement?

Geoff:
As a native speaker of UK English, I would ONLY interpret this comment by 
Hermione as a reference to an event in the past continuing on. In no way 
would it indicate to me that it was a future possibility suggested by Mr. and 
Mrs. Granger.

I would also agree with Shelley, bearing in mind the treatment my younger 
had twenty years or so ago