Hey there all!  I have a quick question, if Hogwarts started a new class after the war like a PE or a gym class where the students were taught Muggle sports like football and tennis, etc., what would the professor be called?  Muggle Athletics Professor or Muggle Games Professor, and should it be Professor or Master?  I remember in Agatha Christie's ( Read more... )

Can anyone help me out with words you’d call your mates to express how good they are (e.g., in the current day I would say “you’re a ledge”) if you were British and in 1981? (it’s Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, so regionalisms don’t matter so much what with the extreme slang melting pot that hogwarts must be). the more specific context being that ( Read more... )

If one student was speaking to a small group of peers (e.g. Sirius to the other Marauders), would they address the group as "guys"? Like, "Hey, guys, look what I found ( Read more... )

Ew, yeah.  I've got a bit of a gross question.  I'm writing a scene with Harry and a 15-year-old Teddy just being silly.  Teddy's embarrassed because people overheard him signing out loud.  (He was wearing an 'mPod,' which is a magical version of an iPod created by George Weasley, and you know how easy it is to forget yourself and start singing ( Read more... )

1) Do kids drink hot cocoa or hot chocolate? I've seen various and sometimes conflicting definitions of these. Can it be shortened just to cocoa?

2) What would a little kid call his father? Dad/Daddy/Papa/Da/Father/etc?

3) What might a father call his son as a term of endearment? Specifically, would "little man" sound out of place? I read this ( Read more... )

I'd like to have Draco lay back and say, as a tongue-in-cheek sexual invitation to his male lover, "have at me, handsome." (Sort of a cross between using "handsome" as a term of address and the way my friend says "have at it" when offering a dessert etc.) Granted that it's not what people usually say, does that sound way too un-British? (My beta ( Read more... )

In a story I'm working on, Bellatrix has been widowed and has a daughter around 4 years old, who was born after Rodolphus was killed. She's re-entered active Death Eater service as quickly as possible not just because of her usual personality and devotion to Voldemort but also because she wants revenge for Rodolphus' death ( Read more... )

Is Lucius going to call Rodolphus his brother-in-law or just his sister-in-law's husband? OED notes that the word can be used that way sometimes, but doesn't elaborate. I have no idea if upper-class men in the late 70s would use it that way. (In the US it could go either way, depending on who you ask. I can't really even draw class/region lines for

( Questions about Christmas and Christmas-related things.* )

1980s: What is a toddler (Harry, specifically) going to call an injury and/or how is he going to express that something hurt (in the past)? He's basically pointing at the scab and going "Look at my ______, Uncle* Sirius!" "Owie/Ouch" is what my young niece and nephews would use, but I don't know if British children would be the same.

*Which is ( Read more... )