HP audio versions

[Amy Z <lupinesque@yahoo.com>]

Petra wrote:

> Semi-framing his face are various
> annotated manuscript pages.
> 
> One of which is a page from the chapter entitled
> "The Dark Mark."  Nothing earth shattering here -
> just a funny tidbit: at the top is what look to
> be a reminder "Winky - not too Dobby!"  The page
> layout pegs Dale's 'script' for his vocal
> performance as being the US hardback.

Yes, he reads the US versions, as LOONS know from the very first 
chapter, when the new word Dudley learns is "Won't!"  The covers are 
also a bit of a giveaway.  :-P

I think I've told this story before, but repetition is the privilege 
of old age (says the woman who was *not* in first grade when the 
Challenger blew up).  Before I'd even cracked open an HP, I heard Jim 
Dale interviewed on All Things Considered.  GF must have just come 
out, and they were asking him about the process.  He said it took 
about 10 days to tape and that he hadn't read the whole thing when he 
began; he could only read enough each night to prepare for the next 
day's taping (how does one read a mystery properly if one doesn't 
know whodunnit?  But he pulls it off).  So when he encountered Winky, 
he gave her the same voice he'd given Dobby.  Then, to his dismay, he 
discovered he was going to have to create a dialogue between them.  
He created a new voice for Winky and retaped the QWC bits. 

Amy