[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Mould-on-the-Wold

[Child of Midian]

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Geoff:
I think we need to bear in mind that JKR didn't envisage the impact 
of her books at this point and was writing for an anticipated British 
readership. All the little "in" jokes and wordplays such as Diagon Alley, 
Apparition, Durmstrang and such like would be understood by her target 
readers without the need for extensive and joke-killing explanations.
 


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I'm strictly against changing British lit for Americans and Vice Versa (it
would be like translating Tolstoy so that everyone had one name!) I only
read the British editions in my home in South East Pennsylvania (though my
daughter has a paper-back set of the "Americanized" books because, quite
frankly, it was really cheap!) I've read all the British editions aloud to
my daughters and with a few explanations and some shoulder shrugging ("I
don't know, it's a British phrase") they had no issue understanding, 

They covered "Diagon Alley" in the second film "what did he say?"
"diagonally" "that's what I thought."

md