"Nice and" expression question-Neville.

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> I agree. There's no excuse for making Neville Potions master rather
> than Herbology professor, which can't be explained through
> misinterpreted idioms. Maybe it was wishful thinking on the part of
> the translator (poetic justice, in his or her view?).


zanooda: 

I'm pretty sure that was not deliberate, Carol. They just don't care:
somebody made an unacceptable mistake, and no one at the publishing
house even noticed (except for the puzzled readers, of course :-)).
And, as every book is translated by a different team, I suppose they
just don't know previous books and characters well. 

They are unaware of the fact (or else they don't care) that Neville is
very good at Herbology and that Potions is his worst subject,
otherwise they certainly would have noticed such an obvious mistake.
Potions, Herbology - it's all the same in their eyes, I guess :-). I
bet they don't even understand *why* the fans made such a big deal out
of this "Neville the Potions master" thing :-). 

They didn't even acknowledge their mistake and didn't apologize, I
believe. Maybe amateur translators are not professionals, but, unlike
the official translators, they are enthusiastic and they care about HP
books and characters. That's why I'm trying to help them, see :-)?