Well. Lepus et. al., I didn't say I'd have chosen to change the vocabulary. Not that anybody on the 'Cat is up for killing the messenger..it warms my heart to see feelings run high about the treatment of a book. And there's that puckish side of me that imagines if the language hadn't been altered. All those boys in their homemade costumes, with the Griffindor lion on the bodice, and pleated skirts...