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От : Alexander Koryagin 2:221/1 23 дек 25 08:04:56
К : Anton Shepelev 23 дек 25 09:12:01
Тема : Harry again
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Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 22.12.2025 12:25
(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
AK>> What was the good of magicking himself out of his
AK>> room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it?
AS> I think literary English requires "doing so" instead of
AS> "doint it".
IMHO you are sometimes too strict about English. It was Rowling
after all, not me. And we should remember immortal Bart Simpson`s saying
"I didn`t do it!" ;-)
AK>> Now that the Dursleys knew they weren`t going to
AK>> wake up as fruit bats, he had lost his only weapon.
AS> I never read any of the Harry Potter books, but
AS> this sentence seems to refer to a threatened or
AS> impending punishment by magic in a generic manner,
AS> i.e. by turning one into a fruit bat.
Unlikely. If she wrote about fruit flies it sounded well in
England. But as for "fruit bats"....
Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2025
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