books and accents

[laurenmcoakley]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, can can <jeffschick16 at ...> wrote:
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>   Does anyone else here, especially my fellow Amercians, LOVE the 
fact that there is no random American walking through Hogwarts?  
Malfoy doesn't have a surfer dude kind of accent and McGonnagall is 
not from New YORK.  I love it!  It's keeps it so seperate from my 
world, which is what makes it such an easy escape.  Don't get me 
wrong, I love all of our accents in this country, it's just I prefer 
my Hogwarts world British, Irish and so on.
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> Candace
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> "cuz...the worlds alot bigger than you and me...."
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Lauren here:
Candace, I DO enjoy Hogwarts being somewhere else in the world.  As 
Americans, we are immersed in our culture, and it's really 
refreshing to be exposed to something else.  Surfer dudes, Southern 
Belles, and those stereotypical mafia thugs from "Joisey" (hey- I'm 
a New Jersey girl, and we don't all talk like that, don't all wear 
spandex leggings, have big hair and wear too much make-up!), while 
these things make up a collective culture of the US, which is neat 
because it's such a large country, but I think (maybe I am) 
even "over-exposed"- it's just not so interesting when you grow up 
with it.

Actually, I wish the HP movies were *MORE* British- I loved "Bend it 
Like Beckham" (which had the additional intrigue of Indian culture 
in there as well!)  I hope to visit Europe sometime in my life, and 
you can believe England, Ireland & Scotland will be on that 
itinerary, largely because of my love of HP and it's descriptions of 
this foreign land!