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   Hi Alexander,   
      
   23.12.2025 12:04:56, Alexander Koryagin wrote:   
      
    AK> It was Rowling after all, not me. And we should remember immortal   
    AK> Bart Simpson's saying "I didn't do it!" ;-)   
      
   "I didn't hit her! I did NOT! Oh, hai Mark." (c) Johnny   
       
    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.   
    AK> Unlikely. If she wrote about fruit flies it sounded well in   
    AK> England.   
      
   How do you know?    
      
    AK> But as for "fruit bats"....   
      
   What's wrong with them? Besides the fact that being tropical critters,   
   they're not common at all in Scotland, and the writer could possibly   
   mean bats in general (as a type).   
      
      
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