I Saw PoA! (finally so, longish)

[susanbones2003]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "sophiamcl" <sophiamcl at h...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, Valerie Flowe 
> <valerie.flowe at v...> wrote:
> > 
>> I'm glad this came up. This is something that has bee´n bugging 
me a 
> bit. Have you noticed that GAry's/Sirius accent changes through 
this 
> scene? I'm not good at naming different British accents, other 
than 
> perhaps cockney and geordie, but that's about the extent of it. 
> anyway, my point is that at the beginning of the scene, Sirius 
speaks 
> a "less refined" english than when he swithces to the RRRRRRRRRat 
> mode, which is when we get to the Pettigrew business. The way he 
> says, for instance "You'll know all about the madness within" to 
> Lupin, it's comletely different! But since Gary is a great actor, 
I 
> can only think that there is some purpose to this, unless he 
changed 
> his mind about Sirius´s accent between takes, and it's a resutl of 
> botched editing...
> 
> Sophia

Pray tell, what is a "geordie?" This list generated quite a detailed 
discussion on accents when COS came out, people incensed that a 
pureblood like Malfoy sounded more like an Eastender and many other 
such observations but "geordie" is unfamiliar to me. Enlighten me. 
Is it a term for an uppercrust person? What's its derivation??
Jennifer