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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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