Religion in the Wizarding World. (Was: Re: Halloween Toasts)

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 191412



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eric Oppen <technomad at ...> wrote:
>
> Quoting Geoff <geoffbannister123 at ...>:
> 
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "peter kersbergen"   
> > <kersberg@> wrote:
> >
> > kamion:
> >> there is no baptism mentioned at any page of HP, so there isn't   
> >> any.... just the vague relation of godfather-godchild
> >
> > Geoff:
> > That is a logical non-sequitur.
> >
> > You might just as well say that because we never hear of Harry or
> > any of the others going to the toilet, they are all constipated or
> > because they never apparently eat carrots, there aren't any.

Eric: 
> Hermione's mentioned as nipping into the ladies' a couple of times,  
> and ISTR that Harry _Sectumsempra'd_ Draco after they ran into each  
> other in a loo.

Geoff:
This is US English raising its head again.....

In HBP, Harry meets up with Draco in a "boys' bathroom". To a 
British person, a "bathroom" is a "bathroom" is a "bathroom". We 
never refer to toilets as bathrooms. The most common usage, 
which has crept into informal speak in the last few decades is "loo"; 
in more polite society "toilet". Lavatory has rather dropped out of 
regular usage. In my house, we have a ground floor loo and on the 
first floor we have a bathroom which also contains  a loo.