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   TID: FastEcho 1.46.1 1530   
   Alexander quoted /Harry Potter/:   
      
   AK> What was the good of magicking himself out of his   
   AK> room if Hogwarts would expel him for doing it?   
      
   I think literary English requires "doing so" instead of   
   "doint it".   
      
   AK> Now that the Dursleys knew they weren't going to   
   AK> wake up as fruit bats, he had lost his only weapon.   
      
   I never read any of the Harry Potter books, but this   
   sentence seems to refer to a general sence of an   
   impeding or threatened punishment.   
      
   --- FastEcho/2 1.46.1 Revival   
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