[HPforGrownups] Re: Teeth, Braces, and the English Language or Variations there of.

[lynde at post.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 190304










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.

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As a person who works with kids with different levels of speech fluency and reads almost all the time that she's not working, talking to someone, writing or crocheting something or other and who listens to something or other all the time because a noiseless enviroment is creepy, I think that Hermione, like many kids her age was using a common phrase for something that had not yet happened. I see it all the time with more speech confident Special Ed and Regular Ed kids. We're always having to ask them if something has occurred yet only to have them say "No. After school" or "this weekend" or "Next year" or something. Granted, a lot of the kids I work with are SE which means they're verbal skills aren't always the greatest, but I hear this not only at work, but at church, at Jr. orchestra workshops (which are with RE kids) with kids (and adults) on the bus. People just don't always live in a straight timeline verbally. They're speech isn't always perfect and that's what I think happened with Hermione/Rowling here.

Lynda




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