The Return of Tom Swift

[junediamanti]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" 
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
>
> When I read OOP aloud to my son I really noticed this habit.  On 
> many, many occasions I interpreted the speech, came to the adverb, 
> and had to go back and re-read in a different tone of voice.  I 
> didn't like it at the time.
> 
> I think it's an interesting question whether this adds to or 
> detracts from the story.  JKR kept overriding my interpretation, 
but 
> maybe there's a point to that.  I am not sufficiently good or 
> experienced a writer to know if she could have written the 
dialogue 
> slightly differently to ensure that the appropriate tone of voice 
> would come out of the printed words.
> 
> > So said June, acerbically, and maybe arrogantly.
> 
> This is all very interesting, but I hope it won't prevent you 
> enjoying the Swifties, which are, after all, nothing to do with 
> realistic dialogue and everything to do with feeble puns.
> 
> David

"Indupitably not," she replied, enthusiastically.

Swear to God, I'm going to stop this.  I'm giving up tonight, 
really. Honestly.  

June